Former real-world opsec manager for yankee interests before I started shucking off the yoke of empire: what you’re requesting is eminently foolish regarding hard-left posters who I can only assume make frequent habit of attending actions and protests. From one potential selfie here, regardless of the context, I could trace that back to every single social media platform you use, maybe even find a couple of your email addresses, or a grip of phone numbers that one of 'em is yours.
Just one badly cropped image, or unscrubbed pool of EXIF data can lead me straight to you, in meatspace, if you’re not as tech savvy as people like us need to be. Now just imagine what kind of purpose-made, bespoke tools our opfors have for that exact purpose.
Oh damn that’s actually top notch. Still wouldn’t recommend uploading selfies here because there are other methods that honestly are more state-actor oriented, but scrubbing exif isn’t something I’d think any platform would first-thing do. Major kudos.
once you reveal 3 or 4 things about yourself the number of potential other people it could be shrinks significantly. How many gay german expats live in Dallas?
Former real-world opsec manager for yankee interests before I started shucking off the yoke of empire: what you’re requesting is eminently foolish regarding hard-left posters who I can only assume make frequent habit of attending actions and protests. From one potential selfie here, regardless of the context, I could trace that back to every single social media platform you use, maybe even find a couple of your email addresses, or a grip of phone numbers that one of 'em is yours.
Just one badly cropped image, or unscrubbed pool of EXIF data can lead me straight to you, in meatspace, if you’re not as tech savvy as people like us need to be. Now just imagine what kind of purpose-made, bespoke tools our opfors have for that exact purpose.
pretty sure Hexbear scrubs exif on upload because our admins are rad
edit: confirmation
Oh damn that’s actually top notch. Still wouldn’t recommend uploading selfies here because there are other methods that honestly are more state-actor oriented, but scrubbing exif isn’t something I’d think any platform would first-thing do. Major kudos.
imgur has done it for a long time (maybe always?) I’m pretty sure discord does it too.
Every platform does it. Including Meta, Snap, Pinterest, etc.
I don’t think it’s to protect their users but just to save on storage space
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👀 time for a new account? I really like my name though I think it’s clever 😭
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Oh I posted too much there is no doubt Im gonna have to burn this account soon.
Mine is also super stale at this point
once you reveal 3 or 4 things about yourself the number of potential other people it could be shrinks significantly. How many gay german expats live in Dallas?
Excellent post, you should do an opsec guide if you have the time at some point