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Good Advice
“I thought i would share some information, something i have not seen anyone go into detail regarding on any of the blogs or forums in recent years. It concerns exif data. Exif data is a digital code your camera imprints into every photo you take, and sticks with it where ever it travels around the internet and among friends etc. Details such as time and date, are easily messed up by just not setting your time correctly, but what is hard to shift, and what can fuck you royally, is the serial number of the camera used to take the photo.
You take a photo of a panel, and that ends up on the internet, with very simple software you can decode that photo to find the camera model, and serial number. Where do you think an internet search for other photos uploaded with that same serial number attached to it will lead? More than likely, your personal facebook page, or blog, website or personal flickr. If the shot is clearly a yard or night shot, thats your door off the hinges at 7am, and probably the camera itself, within your room, and more than likely for most, some sort of literature that shows you like graffiti on trains. Pretty tech stuff, but this is 2011 and thats a tiny part of the high tech shit they will use to track you down. So keep your fliks off the net, exif data is trashable, with techy software, but a simpler way to get rid of most of the data, if you must send it to someone, is to open the flik and print screen it and send that one.
Safe Benching.”
Found the above here. Pretty on point stuff. Or you can just stick with these:
Tags: digital is overrated
good information and nice choice of cameras at the bottom, i wish we could all stick to shooting yashica t4′s! gotta love that waist level viewfinder… my t2 will do. those olympus stylus’ are little gems too!
u have program that erase all exif data from photo..its easy and fast program soo its noo problem.
the other problem is that 99% of peoples think that its stupid to do this or never now about the stuff that u was speaking:)
stay safe!
Nice article. To get rid of ALL exif data use a program called JStrip, it’s free, and doesn’t recompress the photos or anything. Make sure you set the date and time on your camera incorrect too.
Remember memory cards can be unformatted, or undeleted. use a free program called Eraser to securely erase the files or whole card.
Good looks Shifty Tully!
..not only that it has a date stamp and model of camera on every photo..u have also like information of light that was that day and numerous other informations, sooo delete all exif data next time..
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I found out about this while working at a camera store when FBI agents came and asked for the purchase records of a camera with a specific serial number.
Polaroid is the way to go!
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does this apply to the new iphone blackberry cams etc ??
Definitely does, Iphones are the last thing you want to get caught with in your possession… nothing is ever really truly deleted off of your iphone, all files can be recovered…
GPS encryption coding has been added to the next generation of cameras – now you can find out where the photo was taken too! Believe it or not!
there is a thing to disable the gps location n stuff tho , useless??
Yes, it is useless. On most phones it actually says “Disable (Except 911)”. That gps function has no bearing on tracking you from the cell cites.
why not just do a print screen of the photo blown up on your desktop. surely the data wouldn’t be transfered too a screen shot?
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