ExifTool on Television in "The Night Agent"

[Phil Harvey]

If you're watching the new Netflix series "The Night Agent", keep an eye out for the two main characters (Rose, a cybersecurity expert, and Peter, an FBI agent) to use ExifTool in episode 9 (at 16:26 to be exact).  There is a quick close-up of the screen when Rose extracts metadata from an image to determine when the picture was taken, and the ExifTool output is clearly visible.  As it happens, the date/time she obtained was a filesystem time, and not metadata at all, but it's the thought that counts.

- Phil

[Kajuna]

Yes! Caught it yesterday. They're using a pretty recent version: 12.41

[blue-j]

That was so awesome to see.  I enjoyed the show, too.  I love it when they are realistic with computer stuff! 

Kudos for the exposure!

- J

[sevy]

ExifTool was also used by the heros of a French serie : Stalk. The adventure of an IT student who decide to stalk other student for revenge.
see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalk
If interested, I may try to find the exact episode but... it seems to be only available in French.

[Phil Harvey]

ExifTool was also used by the heros of a French serie : Stalk. The adventure of an IT student who decide to stalk other student for revenge.
see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalk
If interested, I may try to find the exact episode but... it seems to be only available in French.

Interesting, thanks.  If you know the exact episode, maybe you could add a note to the ExifTool Wikipedia page:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExifTool#In_media

- Phil

[Martin Z]

Ha, yes! I caught this too!... You're (even more) famous Phil! 🙂

-- Good show btw (1-off, 10 episodes), would recommend it if anyone has a few hours to kill

[Hubert]

Just finished bingewatching. Excellent show.

[Phil Harvey]

Apparently it didn't live up to Wikipedia standards because this section was recently deleted from the Wikipedia ExifTool page:

In media
ExifTool appears in episode 9 of the Netflix series The Night Agent as one of the characters uses it to extract metadata from an image.[11]

ExifTool appears in episode 6 (Le Mème parfait) fo the first season of the French web serie Stalk as the main character use it to change the filedate from an image.[12]

11. "The Devil We Know". The Night Agent. Season 1. Episode 9. Netflix. 23 March 2023.
12. "'Le Mème parfait". Stalk. Season 1. Episode 6. HBO. 13 March 2020.

- Phil

[jbionic]

use ExifTool in epis

No wonder Russian cybersecurity specialists keep an eye on any bugs in your tool too, given the fact the tool has been featuring in the hands of the intelligence community increasingly often lately even in the movies    I ain't from the cybersecurity or intelligence circles, but have seen some recent articles about how to exploit exitool's bugs in a popular Russian xakep (stands for hacker) online magazine
https://xakep.ru/2022/04/12/htb-overflow/     
https://xakep.ru/2021/11/03/gitlab-rce-2/

[Phil Harvey]

Right.  And I guess that's a good reason to keep your version of ExifTool up to date since these are exploiting a long-since-patched vulnerability.

- Phil