File Metadata Information - You could be putting yourself at risk!

[iwanttobeabottom]

You think it is a waste of time. Perhaps, but it feels good to me.
Most of them replied with a thank. And that they didn’t know they could be revealed.
I am also amazed on how often people uses no form of password on their phone, and also wear it fully visible for any pickpockets.

I had to message someone once because their video had a geolocation embedded in it that showed exactly where they recorded it. Thankfully I'm not a bad actor and just told them to remove it for their own safety, as well as to disable their location embedding.

Truth be told, geotagging should always remain off in your camera. GPS should stay off too, unless actively in use at that point in time. When it's done being used, turn it off.

Quadruple check everything you want to post before you post it. Wait some time in between checking, even going do far as to sleep on it a few times. Always try to look with a different set of eyes and scrutinize the shit out of every detail of your pictures and videos.

People are insanely crafty and piece together a little from here and a little from there to figure out more than might be expected.

Doubt nothing and distrust everyone.

The average person is also exceedingly dumb and of below-average intelligence.


And a lot of people DON'T use it, for any number of reasons. Don't think to, don't want to, don't know how, don't want to learn how, etc.

Why don't you be helpful to them and use it and copy and paste the links here to provide it for those that can't/won't find it for themselves?

Do I think it's a waste of time?

 

[humananimal]

Do I think it's a waste of time?

Sorry, I just read back now. I misunderstood the meaning of “Missing the forest for the trees”

 

[iwanttobeabottom]

Sorry, I just read back now. I misunderstood the meaning of “Missing the forest for the trees”

It means missing the big picture for the smaller details. I didn't know it until about a year ago and had to look it up. Knowing now what it means, it's actually a pretty good expression to me.

 

[pes]

If someone was to make a bot for this, what other things should be scanned for along with metadata? I assume there are other moderation worthy things a program can scan for.

telegram, session, email, phone numbers... stuff
pedo things like yng, young, ageplay, depraved perv...

 

[humananimal]

It means missing the big picture for the smaller details. I didn't know it until about a year ago and had to look it up. Knowing now what it means, it's actually a pretty good expression to me.

Oh, almost the same in my language.
It will translate to “Couldn’t see the forest for all those trees”

 

[pes]

Could scan for the first four. The rest I don't know of an easy filter for that.

While you are downloading stuff, hash it and report duplicates as well.

 

[dogluver101]

Then my idea holds better than a plugin or mod, as the piece of software I envision does not require permanent modification to the forum software. It's akin to running a python script - only requires installing Python if such is not already available.

I do not know how the forum software is structured, but the files are probably in a database and may not be accessible easily in the filesystem.

Could be possible. Doubt using something like image magick's php extension would do that to videos. The normal structure is all files are in a media folder. They get changed to random file names depending on the attachment, etc.
Certain mods as mentioned only do images, and they may do more but that requires the forum to be upgraded.

And as mentioned as this is the 20th post reported of Meta data in videos.
DISABLE LOCATION SETTINGS FOR YOUR CAMERA IN YOUR PHONE

telegram, session, email, phone numbers... stuff
pedo things like yng, young, ageplay, depraved perv...

I should see about getting Elastic search to just access my server that's running it so it can allow for better searching. Nothing special needs to be done since I already did that. Just needs an IP and it does the rest.

*Guy's entire life gets ruined* - whelp, the warning waaaaas posted. Welcome message for new users? No. Upload form? No. Sticky at least?!? No. Just, you know, somewhere. Wait, the site found the GPS in the image and did what instead of remove it?!?

I think I do have that in the rules as well. I'll make sure its at least a lot more visible.

 

[pes]

send alerts to his cell phone

You are not getting my phone number.

Are the mods able to delete a photo by being given the attachment ID / a working URL to download it?

I do not think so.

 

[Uma Oshichi]

https://www.imgops.com/

Has a bunch of useful tools including EXIF and Header info checker which allows you to remove any identifying information

 

[dogluver101]

Do you know how to delete attachments via download link without the thread link? @dogluver101 @FloofyNewfie

The RSS feed is also a good way to automate this stuff: https://www.zoovilleforum.net/forums/-/index.rss

https://www.zoovilleforum.net/forums/m-m-dogs.227/index.rss

You'd need the full link to the video file. Mods can fully delete it within the thread.

 

[bubbleprincess69]

Hi i wanted to ask. If i send a document ie a story with no images or videos, just written content for the story section that can be traced or i could be identified through my account or the file itself? My biggest fear is sending a story and then later authorities knocking on my door

It would be from my PC and using DOCX files. Can anyone give me sound advice how to go about that safely?

 

[iwanttobeabottom]

Hi i wanted to ask. If i send a document ie a story with no images or videos, just written content for the story section that can be traced or i could be identified through my account or the file itself? My biggest fear is sending a story and then later authorities knocking on my door

It would be from my PC and using DOCX files. Can anyone give me sound advice how to go about that safely?

Sometimes it can embrd stuff like the username of the account that created it and like what version of Word it was written with, but nothing remotely as useable as GPS location.

Fun fact: word document metadata is how they caught BTK.

 

[humananimal]

Hi i wanted to ask. If i send a document ie a story with no images or videos, just written content for the story section that can be traced or i could be identified through my account or the file itself? My biggest fear is sending a story and then later authorities knocking on my door

It would be from my PC and using DOCX files. Can anyone give me sound advice how to go about that safely?

I will recommend to upload it in pure .TXT format.

 

[bubbleprincess69]

I will recommend to upload it in pure .TXT format.

as in just cut and paste it as just a post and not an attached document?

 

[Goattobeloved]

as in just cut and paste it as just a post and not an attached document?

Yes if the forum post can hold the lenght and paragraphing is not crucial.

If not, an attached text file in the way a pkain text editor (ie: notepad) dows when selecting "save as .TXT"

 

[dartel]

Just get BatchPurifier, it's cheap and it has options to purge metadata from any file type.

 

[bubbleprincess69]

Copy and paste can carry formatting and metadata, I think it depends on what program it is being copied from. For example, copying from microsoft word to gmail will do that. Copying from windows notepad is probably more secure.


Even a pure text file is stored with metadata on the file system like what user created it and when it was last accessed. It can be seen by right clicking on the file in windows and clicking on details. Is that metadata uploaded?

Don't forget the way you write, phrases you use, the language you speak, the keyboard format, level of detail, punctuation, use or disuse of emojis, and what details you include explicitly or that is deducable can be used as part of identification.

I think from all this i will just pass on posting any stories. Its all scaring me to death so i will just look and read better to be safe than sorry.