>The NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever. In the little town of Bluffdale, Big Love and Big Brother have become uneasy neighbors. And instead of listening for words flowing down from heaven, these newcomers will be secretly capturing, storing, and analyzing vast quantities of words and images hurtling through the world's telecommunications networks. Rather than Bibles, prophets, and worshippers, this temple will be filled with servers, computer intelligence experts, and armed guards. Once built, it will be more than five times the size of the US Capitol. Just off Beef Hollow Road, less than a mile from brethren headquarters, thousands of hard-hatted construction workers in sweat-soaked T-shirts are laying the groundwork for the newcomers' own temple and archive, a massive complex so large that it necessitated expanding the town's boundaries. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand. Membership has doubled since 1978-and the number of plural marriages has tripled-so the sect has recently been looking for ways to purchase more land and expand throughout the town.īut new pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. The brethren's complex includes a chapel, a school, a sports field, and an archive. Today Bluffdale is home to one of the nation's largest sects of polygamists, the Apostolic United Brethren, with upwards of 9,000 members.
They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become known as "the principle," marriage to multiple wives. It's the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah's Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. Note: I created the file metadata by using exiftool, which allows creation of input for the various data fields.The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.
FILE SPY METADATA CODE
Image Description NO CODE EXECUTION ALLOWED HEREĬreate Date 2018:03:27 18:24:50, 8 months, 19 days, 21 hours, 49 minutes, 22 seconds ago This site gives us all the necessary data, as follows: This tool allows you to upload a file and/or point to a URL. We can also see the file creation date, which was March 27, 2018.Īnother way to answer the challenge questions is by using an online tool, Jeffrey’s Image Metadata Viewer. For this particular competition, however, the answer we were looking for was the city, so all that is needed is Portland. Plugging in those coordinates gives us an output of the address 2452–2200 SE Elliott Ave, Portland, OR 97214, which is somewhat imprecise. The make/manufacturer of the camera is “3-Letter Agency” and the model is “Sp圜amera”. The file command had already displayed the make and model of the “camera” but now I can confirm that with the output from exiftool. Once I had exiftool installed I ran it against the dollz.jpg file to see what information I could glean, which turned out to be quite a lot. Interestingly, it is not pre-installed in Kali, so I installed it using the following command: There is a Linux command line tool, exiftool, that can extract EXIF data from image files. The EXIF standard allows for data about the image to be stored within the image file, including fields such as camera make and model, the date and time of image capture, and the shutter speed. Image files have Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data embedded in them, which can be quite useful in conducting a forensic analysis and/or solving a CTF challenge. There doesn’t, however, appear to be any information about the location. There is also some other interesting data displayed, but we will get back to that.
According to the output, it looks like we have a JPEG image file.
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