back to article Boffins discover digital-camera 'fingerprints'

If you recently murdered someone and took a picture of the victim as a little memento, you’d be wise to ditch the camera. Because imaging boffins have developed a way of identifying a camera’s particulars from its pictures. Scientists at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University, New York …

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  1. David Gosnell

    Make & model

    Wouldn't it be easier to look in the EXIF data?

    Sure, it could be wiped/changed, but hey, any editing whatsoever will stymie any hope of forensic examination.

  2. Tim Bates
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    Agreeing with post #1

    Why not check the EXIF data. Basic cameras have the date, time, make and model... Better cameras often include the owners name too!

    Seems a waste of time to develop software to work out something that's present 99% of the time anyway.

  3. Dr Patrick J R Harkin

    90% is pretty damn impressive

    when you consider how many different cameras there are. I wonder if it relies on having an unprocessed image, or if one scaled/edited would still work?

    As most webbed/mailed images have been at least partly processed, having an untouched image more or less requires having the camera or computer of the photographer - in which case it's not that usefull to know that camera model!

  4. David Stever
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    All the fun is gone

    Damn- first they took away our ability to make Xerox(c) copies of currency, now the odd murderer / miscreant can't pause to take pictures of their handy work. Soon enough, the artistic expressions of the criminal mind will be completely hedged in by these folks, and it just won't be fun anymore to express one's self at all in a criminal enterprise...

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