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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."

4 of 260 comments (clear)

  1. And this is newsworth why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Old news... nothing new to see.. move along...

  2. No way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OK Mr. Know-It-All, what kind of camera did I use?
    http://tinyurl.com/5kqfq6

    Put up or shut up.

  3. Re:Killjoy by DerekLyons · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's an impressive story "I took two cameras and compared them unscientifically, then modified the output - and nobody could reliably differentiate the modified output".

  4. wow...u r retard. by mr_stinky_britches · · Score: 0, Troll

    wow...u r retard.

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