ScottC
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Trawler Forum is a great place for sharing, as most of the information posted here is available to the entire online world. Truly a wonderful resource! But, give careful consideration to sharing your real full name -- either as a User Name or in your signature. Give even more careful thought to mentioning your physical address or phone number or anything else that can aid in the identification of your physical home address.
Many, I'm sure, understand why this caution should be taken, but for those that may not have thought about it, let me elaborate...
You go on a nice cruise doing the Loop. You post pictures of amazing and beautiful things you see and update threads mentioning ports you've visited. The world, including any would-be thief networks, can read these posts and quickly determine your home may be empty for an extended period of time.
Perhaps you're already on top of this and feel you have done a decent job protecting your identity. Have you thought about the photographs you upload? Most digital cameras today record "meta data" with each .jpg file. This meta data includes date, time and more and more often, the exact coordinates of where the photo was taken. Normally, this should not be of any concern...but do keep this in mind when you upload pictures to any social media. If you want to upload a "clean" picture, without latitude/longitude coordinates, one way to do it is to take a screenshot of the .jpg file with something like Windows Paint, for example, and save the screenshot as a .jpg file on your computer and then upload it. The quality will still be good enough for TF uploads to look decent.
Many, I'm sure, understand why this caution should be taken, but for those that may not have thought about it, let me elaborate...
You go on a nice cruise doing the Loop. You post pictures of amazing and beautiful things you see and update threads mentioning ports you've visited. The world, including any would-be thief networks, can read these posts and quickly determine your home may be empty for an extended period of time.
Perhaps you're already on top of this and feel you have done a decent job protecting your identity. Have you thought about the photographs you upload? Most digital cameras today record "meta data" with each .jpg file. This meta data includes date, time and more and more often, the exact coordinates of where the photo was taken. Normally, this should not be of any concern...but do keep this in mind when you upload pictures to any social media. If you want to upload a "clean" picture, without latitude/longitude coordinates, one way to do it is to take a screenshot of the .jpg file with something like Windows Paint, for example, and save the screenshot as a .jpg file on your computer and then upload it. The quality will still be good enough for TF uploads to look decent.