When people ask me about metadata and they’re not asking about a phone app, I default to saying exiftool because it’s fabulous and it’s the tool that I like. But it’s rarely a good answer for most people who want simpler things. So I looked at MAT2, the successor to Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT). It […]
We focus almost exclusively on software that runs locally on linux because of all the great software that is available. But in this post we’ll take a look at a couple of web based reources for doing some pretty effective image forensics. We test drove these sites using JPEG and PNG image files with content […]
Photographs have clues that are specific to a camera. Tiny clues, but given a group of photos form the same camera it quickly becomes obvious that they did come from the same source. Once that happens, every photo you ever take is identified as coming from your camera, on your phone, and associated to you. […]
Camera technology is not what it was a generation ago. Photogaphs and videos captured using smartphones have revolutionized how we see the world, how we share information and how we document our lives. But few understand the technologies involved and how they are analyzed. In these next few posts I want to share what I […]