Comment by jsheard
3 years ago
Discord strips EXIF but the author was still able to unredact the images they'd posted there.
Some implementations of EXIF stripping might help, but it's not guarenteed.
3 years ago
Discord strips EXIF but the author was still able to unredact the images they'd posted there.
Some implementations of EXIF stripping might help, but it's not guarenteed.
Discord doesn't strip EXIF from PNGs, only JPEGs
Seriously? What's the reasoning behind that?
It's rare to see PNGs in-the-wild containing EXIF data, it's a feature that's only been in the spec since ~2017. I'm actually looking for one to double-check my statement about discord, but I can't find any.
Edit: I made my own. I can confirm that the exif chunk was not stripped. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/541730746805649476/10...
That's interesting. I've seen a couple of rotated PNGs before which I assumed were caused by Discord stripping the EXIF and orientation data. Found a PNG like that without EXIF from May 2022 so I wonder if Discord stopped stripping or if it was stripped on the person's device somewhere.