Re: Security issues posed by PNG metadata

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXctpfRbqdaKd3Z9PdvOUz=b3bm2vZgZzjLi6+g+KSGuwGw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 3:48 PM, John Bowler <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Soni L. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry, how is copyright information a security issue?
>>
>> I use copyright information all the time myself. It's useful for, well,
>> copyright.
>>
>
> It's a privacy issue.  It contains the name of the entity which holds the
> copyright.
>


i.e., if a whistleblower submits a photo to a "leak" site, and thinks it is
anonymous,
they get their cover blown because their camera wrote a copyright line in
their
image file.



> That would not be "fakedme+png" or Soni L., it would be your full legal
> name.
>
> Of course that's not a privacy issue for me, but then I'm not typical; so
> far as I know I am the only person on this list with a signature like this:
>
> --
> John Bowler <[email protected]>
> +1 (541) 450-9885 <%28541%29%20450-9885>
> PO BOX 3151
> KERBY OR 97531-3151
> USA
>

Like this one I sent out yesterday?  It's not an "email signature" but
it's pretty much like yours otherwise.

12. Editor

   Glenn Randers-Pehrson
   PNG Development Group
   611 Rivershore Court
   Edgewood MD 21040

   Phone: (410) 676-6950

   EMail: glennrp at gmail.com

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