Stripping EXIF metadata doesn’t make a photo anonymous. DQT quantisation tables and Huffman coding tables are baked into the JPEG compression — a permanent camera fingerprint that survives every standard metadata strip. Two of the 60+ forensic checks snapWONDERS reads from every image.
How I built the DQT encoder fingerprint database inside snapWONDERS — deriving libjpeg tables mathematically from the ISO standard, and running a live accumulation pipeline with a trust model to guard against faked metadata. And what this has to do with Vaultify.
The story behind Vaultify — a father building a steganography platform in memory of his son Huey, who lost his sight at four and dreamed of photos that carry hidden stories.
