So for anyone else intending to do an anonymous live stream, doing the shoot indoors (insulated from outside noises such as a 4channer driving around in a truck honking their horn) would probably allow for an uninterrupted stream.
I don't think it would. I think what this actually shows is the opposite may be true even when it seems absurd to think that way. Crazy things might be used to locate you:
- Picture surfaces of person planning to do the live stream hopping off a plane. People track where they came from back to Malaysia.
- Person sees the dimensions of the rooms via the live stream. Runs over Google maps and finds all buildings with those dimensions.
- Half the area gets ruled out, because of the limitations of running a live stream means there is no connectivity in some of the areas.
- Rent a car service records hacked for only car dealer in that area. GPS logs of cars acquired. One of the cars went to one of the possible locations.
Burglar heads out breaks in and captures the flag.
It's completely absurd. Utterly absurd. Not much more absurd than what happened here though.
All of those things are way more effort than what they did here. It's like computer security, where you can never have a system that is 100% guaranteed to be perfectly secure. But you can do some simple things to vastly increase the work required by an attacker.
I just don't think the take-away of this was as long as you sound-proof a room, you are probably golden. It would be reasonable to have thought that an undisclosed location with no visible landmarks was fine. It wasn't.
As far as the using the geometry visible and google maps: this was done before in a video of a terrorist training camp. It resulted in Russia bombing the area, after they were alerted.
> Person sees the dimensions of the rooms via the live stream. Runs over Google maps and finds all buildings with those dimensions.
I don't follow. Google maps would only help if the entire building was like one room. The live stream could be inside some closet in a skyscraper with 57 floors. You'd need a searchable database of the blueprints of every building for this to work.
