Did you know...?

[cornbread]

I was watching this show last night, think it was on CNN, but anyway it was about privacy and whatnot.

Did you know that any picture you take using your camera can be traced back to you? Not the exif data, but other hidden data on the picture. Also, anything you print on your printer can be traced back to you, each time you print your printer embeds code onto the document, but it's not visible to the human eye.

Same goes for burning cd's, dvd's, etc...each time you burn something your burner puts a hidden code on the media that only comes from your burner, no two are alike.

They had other things on the show, but those were a few that came to mind. From a crime standpoint I could see where this would be useful, other than that though, it seems like a privacy issue.

 

[Lionsault_100]

I was watching this show last night, think it was on CNN, but anyway it was about privacy and whatnot.

Did you know that any picture you take using your camera can be traced back to you? Not the exif data, but other hidden data on the picture. Also, anything you print on your printer can be traced back to you, each time you print your printer embeds code onto the document, but it's not visible to the human eye.

Same goes for burning cd's, dvd's, etc...each time you burn something your burner puts a hidden code on the media that only comes from your burner, no two are alike.

They had other things on the show, but those were a few that came to mind. From a crime standpoint I could see where this would be useful, other than that though, it seems like a privacy issue.

yeah, but how would you find the printer or cd burner it came from? you'd have to have some other reason to suspect that person was involved in something illegal

 

[>HyperlogiK<]

you could possibly compare the images from a digital camera with other photos online, maybe from your website or one of the online photo albums.

 

[Crana]

omg... I was thinking about this kind of stuff today, didn't know it was true! lol