Mephistopheles <no-fixed@address.net>let his fingers dance across the
keyboard and saidnews:19cdf2dis89e52eur3jo0dfu1m9ni9etv1@4ax.com:
> On 30 Aug 2006 22:19:02 -0500, "::yeahright::"
> <::yeahright::@saywhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>I like to travel and uhhh...see the sights. (I have wondered about
>>these three...) There is another major hobby (not sex), but I'll have
>>to find a way to be more generic about any pictures. Maybe I can find
>>some pix that will give you the idea without being TOO specific...
>
> Greetings, yeahright. Always nice to see you.
>
> You've probably been around longer than I have & are more techno-savvy
> than I but I think one has to be careful with the posting of any
> photos one has taken.
>
> The following is an extract from Cosmos warning a guy called @ about a
> photo he had posted in sim:-
>
> ***********************************************
> Thank you for your nice comments and also the nice pictures you posted
> for security to all I will mention the following security risk!
>
> I observed in the pictures you posted that they still contain the meta
> data that was embeded into the the photo by the camera,(all digital
> cameras do this)
>
> These pictures are perfectly harmless and legal, so no problems with
> them
> however I would point out that the metadata contains camera type and
> serial number and in the event of illegal content may allow the LEA to
> trackback via warrantry registrations and identify the purchaser of
> the camera should they be minded sufficient to do so.
>
> This data can be removed/striped by ACDC/photodex-compupic or adobi
> photoshop mostly when the file is compressed and whoever the author
> was failed to removed this info. Programes exist to do this single
> task.
>
> Cosmos
>
> ***************************************************
>
> As you probably know, the metadata can be accessed by right-clicking
> on the file & selecting Properties-Summary-Advanced.
>
> All the best
>
> MessaFloppies
>
>
>
Thanks for the heads-up, Meph. I will check the rest of the batch and
see that the security risk is removed. Thanks again..
Yeahright
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