OSINT Exercise #025

Adam Murtaza S
3 min readMar 16, 2024

Hello, My name is Adam Murtaza, Today I did exercise #025 by Sofia Santos and this is how I solved it.

Task Briefing:

The world is full of anonymous quotes. Several were written in the unidentified building seen below.

Your task is to:

a) Locate the building.
b) Find the quote containing the word “anarchy”.

Google Reverse Image Search

Reddit or Pinterest didn’t help, came across https://www.stephanieavery.com/ruins/p/adventure, with title Abandoned computer factory, Rochester, USA.

then i googled “Abandoned computer factory, Rochester, USA” , 1st search listing was “inside the abandoned sykes datatronics buliding” https://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2013/09/inside-the-abandoned-sykes-datatronics-building-rochester-ny/

Clicked on Google map link “Orchard Street” from the same Page blog, the address From May 2012 google maps, approx. 43.163352, -77.634837 (Orchard ST South of Lyll ave, Rochester NY), across 392 orchard st (car dealership) & just before 383 Orchard st just on the West Side of Orchard St, Rochester, NY, ( has been brought down/DEMOLISHED since then), see https://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=24222 ; (asbestos abatement began in August 2014 , demolition began in early December 2014.)

Finally googled, anarchy + sykes datatronics abandoned building rochester, from the results 4th or 5th listing,came across

( https://www.flickr.com/photos/axle81401/albums/72157621958651052/ )

Exact quote “ this office was a prison for our brothers and sisters in wage slavery. Let’s make it a carnival for our brothers and sisters in Anarchy. ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/axle81401/4854252066/in/album-72157621958651052/ )

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