Why?
If they knew he was the hacker, why did they expose him? He would be much more valuable compromised but without that being known to the Russians.
Georgia has taken the unusual step of publishing photos of a man it suspects of being the hacker who has been attacking the former Soviet Republic's systems for months. Photos of the alleged cyber-spy were captured after Georgia security experts set up a honeypot sting, tricking the person they believed to be the hacker into …
You're right.
But, now this person has an image plastered over the internet the chances of him going abroad are next to nil. He'll be limited to Russia for the rest of his life. Lest Georgia put a request for his extradition with some pretty solid criminal evidence.
Because that is what I'd do, I'd find out who this person is and keep an eye out for when he goes abroad. The moment he lands in another country I'd put out an arrest warrant through interpol and have him extradited to Georgia.
So, no going to defcon for this fellow. Ever.
Because of the mic I've deleted all the drivers for the webcam on my laptop.
I haven't taped it up though, but then again I'm not a black hat. I mainly did it because the office wanted me to be on WebEx calls with the video enabled. So rather than upsetting people and telling them to FOAD, I just disabled it and told them it was broken :) I know, I'm a coward, but a nice one :P
They would be able to zoom in to the window behind him, enhance the image, zoom into the enhanced image and pick out key geographical features in order to triangulate which building and which room he was in.
Georgian security services needs to take some lessons from the Miami crime lab.
No luck from here. I tried one image search engine:
http://www.tineye.com/search/08595e0a6c3b12b942747eb9757e9de3cfe3268b/
http://www.tineye.com/search/fa5f95d98a9443ca0ee3ae9a8911e20cbb1b99ad/
The image quality is not good and some of his face is missing in each image. Perhaps the Georgians would be so kind as to either wait until they have a good image or to release a better copy, assuming they have one.