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Removing EXIF data is not enough. > “Like snowflakes, no two smartphones are the same. Each device, regardless of the manufacturer or make, can be identified t
by mleonhard 6y ago
Removing EXIF data is not enough.
> “Like snowflakes, no two smartphones are the same. Each device, regardless of the manufacturer or make, can be identified through a pattern of microscopic imaging flaws that are present in every picture they take,” says Kui Ren, lead author of a new study describing the smartphone-identifying technology. “It’s kind of like matching bullets to a gun, only we’re matching photos to a smartphone camera.”
https://www.futurity.org/smartphones-cameras-prnu-1634712-2/ https://www.futurity.org/smartphones-cameras-prnu-1634712-2/
- kickscondor 6y agoI wonder if there are tools for removing (or repatterning) these as post-processing. In fact, you’d think single pixel defects might get washed out in conversion to a lossee image format.