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Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model

Posted by kdawson on from the nobody-saw-me-you-can't-prove-anything dept.

holy_calamity writes "Engineers at Polytechnic University Brooklyn have discovered that digital snaps shorn of any metadata still reveal the make and model of camera used to take them. It is possible to work backwards from the relationships of neighboring pixel values in a shot to identify the model-specific demosaicing algorithm that combines red, green, and blue pixels on the sensor into color image pixels. Forensics teams are already licking their chops."

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  1. Re:stretch? by arashi+no+garou · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Congratulations on re-reemphasizing the obviousness of my redundancy. Or something.

    I'm going back to bed. Carry on.

  2. Metadata by 3ryon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Or you could just look at the EXIF tags for make and model that every camera records when it takes a shot.

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  3. But... by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If they got your camera, after you post processed, they still will be able to tell you what camera you have (or used to have).

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