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Message-ID: <4476F9E0.3080208@digitalmunition.com>
Date: Fri May 26 13:58:25 2006
From: kf_lists at digitalmunition.com (KF (lists))
Subject: EXIF thumbnails - now with sourcecode
You forgot the link....
http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/exif/
-KF
Tonu Samuel wrote:
>Maybe year ago this EXIF thumbnails security topic already was discussed in
>security lists. Mail problem to me was lack of real world examples or any
>kind of statistics of this problem. People who published this problem did not
>shared source code used. There was many technically problematic things to
>solve before anyone was able to repeat the experiment.
>
>I decided to write own software to find how how distributed this problem is
>and get some statistics. I cannot tell you right numbers but approximately 1%
>or less jpg images contains any exif thumbnails which in opinion of my
>software have some difference from big image. I already excluded URLs
>containing word "thumb" and many other possibly bad matches, so 1% is still
>overestimated.
>Most of this 1% is 90 degrees rotations, small crops and other not-so
>important changes. Less than 1% of those 1% contain something sensitive. This
>is question of definition.
>
>Well, I made some page where you can see what is already found and also you
>can grab source code and try it yourself. Currently i found images on sites
>of FBI and CIA and many other places.
>
> T?nu
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