How to tell if a photo has been edited
How to tell if a photo has been edited: forensic analysis reads compression signatures, manufacturer metadata baselines, and thumbnail mismatches across JPEG, WebP, PNG, and video.
Your camera’s fingerprint survives EXIF stripping — here’s how
Stripping EXIF metadata doesn’t make a photo anonymous. Two compression signatures — quantisation tables and Huffman tables — survive every standard strip and reveal both the original encoder and whether the file was re-processed. Here’s what forensic analysis actually reads.
Huey’s vision — and the decade of work to honour it
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.
A new direction — deep digital media forensics
After some time away, the work is moving in a new direction. Hueyify has been paused. The story behind that is personal, and it’s told in full at kennethbspringer.au/our-story. The …