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Author Archives: Kelson
It’s Crop!
Interesting point at The Intercept: Don’t trust cropping tools for security.
If you crop an image for security reasons, make sure you know whether the tool you’re using crops the data (like most image editors) or just the displayed image (like embedding an image into a PDF/Word doc/etc.) If it’s only cropping the display, people can still get at the full image!
Also, make sure the EXIF doesn’t include a thumbnail of the original!
My advice: if opsec is an issue,
- Use an actual image editor.
- Save the file without any metadata.
Update: Interesting that this article came out just before news of some actually broken tools for Android and Windows that do save over the data…but don’t properly truncate the file, so if the interesting bits happen to have been in the extra space left over, they can still be recovered!
Free…Coffee?
Um, no thanks, I’d rather pay for coffee across the street than take my chances here.
Full Halo
A full 22-degree circular halo spotted today, caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in the thin cloud layer. (It was around 65F at ground level.)
These halos are about the same width as a 1x photo on my phone (and most point-and-shoot cameras I’ve had), so I used the wide angle mode to catch the whole thing and then crop it down. I bumped up the saturation a little, but otherwise it’s unprocessed.
Hearts Among Us
Spotted at a park last week.
Amusingly, my phone autocorrected “crewmate” to “cremate” while I was adding the alt text. Considering this is Among Us, it’s not that far off…