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Do computer files contain identifyable data?

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    Would a file made on a computer have any identifyable information about the computer it was created on ?
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    mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
    Good question

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    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Nope. None.
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    SBTlauien African Astronaut
    It depends on the file and how it was made. Metadate resides in some file types made certain ways(like images made by taking pictures on a phone).
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    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    He said a file made on a computer.
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    NARCassist gollums fat coach
    i think these are the sort of thing you're after:

    http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

    https://mat.boum.org/

    http://www.exiv2.org/

    http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

    https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues



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    SBTlauien African Astronaut
    Originally posted by -SpectraL He said a file made on a computer.

    A phone is a computer.
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    NARCassist gollums fat coach
    Originally posted by SBTlauien A phone is a computer.

    lol, spekky's such a numpty huh?



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    Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
    Yes it would.
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    Geolocation is the only real worry and that is only a worry on phones and other devices with GPS. (Plus you can get rid of it very easily)

    Any date/time/hours stuff is very insignificant and won't link back to you.

    So hurry up and send me those nudes you raging, hot hunk of faggot.
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    benny vader YELLOW GHOST
    Originally posted by 霍比特人说中文不好 Geolocation is the only real worry and that is only a worry on phones and other devices with GPS. (Plus you can get rid of it very easily)

    Any date/time/hours stuff is very insignificant and won't link back to you.

    So hurry up and send me those nudes you raging, hot hunk of faggot.

    but what if you say your living in florida and yet your files say their made in paki times. what then ???
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    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    A bird is a bird.
    A phone is a phone.
    A computer is a computer.

    This was your -SpectraL lesson for the day. Carry on, soldiers.
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    Lanny Bird of Courage
    FS metadata regarding dates is almost always stored as timezone naive, I know at least NTFS and ext4 store times as epochal time meaning the timezone of the machine used to create a file is not discernable from the filesystem's metadata. Of course the contents of a file are entirely determined by the program that generates but most reasonable filetypes don't store identifiable metadata (I'm excluding the range of (semi-)proprietary formats typical MS office products and close churn out, and images) in themselves. If most major filesystems don't, and most formats don't, it seems reasonable to assume a files authorship is indiscernible except in special cases where the file specifically contains identifying information. One might be concerned getting back-doored by a malicious OS but since apple/MS generated filesystems are usable and inspectable via auditable tools (you can mount a windows or OSX disk in linux) it seems pretty safe to there's no OS-level descit going on at least: re what's stored on-disk
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    Ajax African Astronaut [rumor the placative aphakia]
    Originally posted by Lanny FS metadata regarding dates is almost always stored as timezone naive, I know at least NTFS and ext4 store times as epochal time meaning the timezone of the machine used to create a file is not discernable from the filesystem's metadata. Of course the contents of a file are entirely determined by the program that generates but most reasonable filetypes don't store identifiable metadata (I'm excluding the range of (semi-)proprietary formats typical MS office products and close churn out, and images) in themselves. If most major filesystems don't, and most formats don't, it seems reasonable to assume a files authorship is indiscernible except in special cases where the file specifically contains identifying information. One might be concerned getting back-doored by a malicious OS but since apple/MS generated filesystems are usable and inspectable via auditable tools (you can mount a windows or OSX disk in linux) it seems pretty safe to there's no OS-level descit going on at least: re what's stored on-disk

    Do you really talk like this?
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    NARCassist gollums fat coach
    probably if he works in palo alto



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  16. #16
    infinityshock Black Hole
    Originally posted by Needledick_Needledick_Needledick Would a file made on a computer have any identifyable information about the computer it was created on ?

    simple answer, with a modern computer: yes
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    Ajax African Astronaut [rumor the placative aphakia]
    Originally posted by NARCassist probably if he works in palo alto.

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    NARCassist gollums fat coach
    Originally posted by Ajax

    would jack kilmer be val kilmers son?

    i was watching wonderland with the hooker chick last night. he was very good in it. very under rated movie.




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    benny vader YELLOW GHOST
    Originally posted by NARCassist would jack kilmer be val kilmers son?

    i was watching wonderland with the hooker chick last night. he was very good in it. very under rated movie.

    i'm sorry english isnt my native language do pls dont get angry if i got this wrong :

    your watching a movie with an intimate service provider and all your thinking was that person in the movie, that man ???
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    NARCassist gollums fat coach
    i've never even heard of the film. should i watch it? i do like emma, like really like, nowattamean?



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