https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1355164987212390402/
"Wow it's really true. The European Commission's "redacted" copy of the AstraZeneca-EU vaccine contract is not redacted at all because you can just see everything in the bookmarks bar on the left."
Note how in my defamation lawsuit, Daniel J. Bernstein went to the trouble of printing out his declaration, then scanning it back in, to ensure the PDF didn't leak anything.
...someone else screwed that up so badly that ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛. 😂
@harding Nice photo!
But even my technique is leaking some important metadata: you're not in Canada right now. 😂
@pete Yep, though those geese are descended from canada geese from about 500,000 years ago. I figure if I take a picture of anything besides a lightless room, there's somebody on 4chan who will be able to figure out roughly where I am. Still, not giving out my exact GPS coordinates at least makes it a challenge.
@lucash_dev @pete Agreed. I'm sure the app leaves some sort of clue Ithat 'm using GNU/Linux (maybe which specific version), and if the filename gets propagated through the upload process, I know that certainly leaks the date I took the screenshot. I'd be surprised if it leaks more than that.
@harding @pete I use the Scrambled EXIF app to do this on my phone on the fly. Super easy.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif
When sharing a photo, first share to the app, then share opens again and choose wherever you wanted to originally share it to and the exif data is gone. It's FOSS and available on F-Droid too.
@pete I liked your idea from a few years ago for sharing photos originally taken using a phone or digital camera: instead of uploading the photo directly, take a screenshot of it first to firewall the metadata. I started doing that, and it not only makes me feel more comfortable sharing random recent photos of geese from a park near where I live, but it also makes it easier for me to crop the image by only capturing part of it, or scale it by just zooming in/out using my favorite image viewer.