Category: Digital Forensics

Stripping EXIF feels like the end of the problem. It is not. Metadata hides in more places than EXIF, and a photo can be identified from its own contents.

While analysing photo metadata I found an IPTC “Special Instructions” field beginning with FBMD, added during upload to Facebook — and why that matters.

Blotting out a face or an address before sharing a photo feels safe. But embedded thumbnails can still hold the version you thought you had hidden.

Every photo carries metadata you never see. Here is how to read it — EXIF, embedded thumbnails and the rest — on any device, with nothing to install.