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lxgrlast Monday at 2:02 PM1 replyview on HN

100% agreed; people generally don't realize how deanonymizing EXIF data can be.

I remember one of my cameras or phones including a "seconds since device startup" counter; together with the exact time the photo was taken, this yields a precise timestamp of when a phone was last restarted. This by itself can be highly deanonymizing out of a small to medium sized set of candidate phones/photographers.


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buildbotlast Monday at 2:28 PM

I mean the serial number of the camera and possibly lens are included too…

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