The Dangers of Posting Your Photos Online
Be careful when posting photos on-line. Almost all new smart phones record where and when you took a photo. Many of the new high-end dedicated cameras do the same thing. Beyond the photo that you see and innocently post is a wealth of data you may not want to publish. That data is called EXIF, for Exchangeable Image Format.
You can read more about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format
The process for finding out where a photo was taken is incredibly simple. Click on the link below for a tool that will not only reveal the GPS coordinates, but show you a Google Image of the location. Just follow this simple four step process:
1. http://regex.info/exif.cgi
2. At this point you have two options:
o From Web
o From File
3. Choose “From File” and then click on the option to browse for one of your photos taken with your iPhone or Droid
4. Then browse for one of your photos and click on the View Image from File button
Boom! Now scroll down to the bottom and you will see a geo image of the area where the photo was taken. It might be your house, school or wherever for everyone to know.
You can also watch this video for a bit of a hair-raiser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N2vARzvWxwY
The good news is it appears FaceBook is now suppressing this geo-tagging information although at the time of this writing they have not replied to my inquiry to confirm that. But many other sites do reveal this information including many dating sites for example. So be careful when posting to Craig’s List, Photobucket and elsewhere. You may be telling people where your kids live, where you work, vacation, etc.
Phones can be set to suppress this data and this data can be stripped from existing photos. If there is popular demand on how to do that I will post another blog showing you how to do that.
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.