wutwutwat 9 hours ago

A lot of folks accepting image uploads don't realize they need to remove the exif data from the images, as that often leaks gps coordinates if they were taken using a cell phone. With imagemagick, you can use the `-strip` flag[0] when processing the images to remove that info.

[0] https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#stri...

  • jmkni an hour ago

    IIRC This is how John McAfee's location was leaked when he was on the run, a Vice reporter took a selfie with him and uploaded it to the website without stripping the EXIF data

  • kristianp 6 hours ago

    It's shame all exif info is stripped. I like to see the camera info, such as focal length, aperture and what lens too for interchangeable lens cameras.

  • al_borland 9 hours ago

    A responsible site will strip this on the user’s behalf, but no one should rely on that.

    If I want to be lazy about it and quality doesn’t matter, I’ll take a screenshot as a quick way to strip EXIF data, the location being the key piece I want gone.

2Gkashmiri 14 hours ago

Firefox version please. Dont help chrome only future

  • sentientslug 11 hours ago

    You’re free to make one yourself