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+-   Digital photos give away a camera's make and model on Monday November 17 2008, @08:34AM holy_calamity

Submitted by holy_calamity on Monday November 17 2008, @08:34AM
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holy_calamity writes "Engineers at Polytechnic University Brooklyn have discovered that digital snaps shorn of any metadata still reveal the make and model of camera used to take them. It is possible to work backwards from the relationships of neighbouring pixel values in a shot to identify the model-specific demosaicing algorithm that combines red, green and blue pixels on the sensor into colour image pixels. Forensics teams are already rubbing their hands."
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