[LINK] Can Israelis edit EXIF headers?

[Stilgherrian]

On 04/06/2010, at 6:21 PM, andrew clarke wrote:
> I don't think either camera has internal batteries - just a small
> capacitor to keep the clock going for a short time.

You're probably right there. 


> The EXIF metadata (including the timestamp) of a JPEG can be edited
> using software, eg. JHead:
> 
> http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

And many others. Which means, I reckon, that if some Israeli spooks were intent on faking photos for propaganda purposes they'd have all that well sorted.

Anyway, my Crikey piece is at:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/04/mavi-marmari-photos-faked-by-israel-probably-not/

Stil


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