wutwutwat 2 days ago

A lot of folks accepting image uploads don't realize they need to remove the exif data from the images, as that often leaks gps coordinates if they were taken using a cell phone. With imagemagick, you can use the `-strip` flag[0] when processing the images to remove that info.

[0] https://imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#stri...

  • kristianp 2 days ago

    It's shame all exif info is stripped. I like to see the camera info, such as focal length, aperture and what lens too for interchangeable lens cameras.

  • al_borland 2 days ago

    A responsible site will strip this on the user’s behalf, but no one should rely on that.

    If I want to be lazy about it and quality doesn’t matter, I’ll take a screenshot as a quick way to strip EXIF data, the location being the key piece I want gone.

    • wutwutwat 20 hours ago

      I don't grant my camera app location permissions, so the images are never tagged with gps in the first place, but I also will screen shot pictures before sending them anywhere.

  • jmkni a day ago

    IIRC This is how John McAfee's location was leaked when he was on the run, a Vice reporter took a selfie with him and uploaded it to the website without stripping the EXIF data

2Gkashmiri 2 days ago

Firefox version please. Dont help chrome only future

  • ternera 9 hours ago

    This is something I plan to do eventually! I use a Chromium-based browser on a day-to-day basis, so that was what I wanted to tackle first.