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frigg
12/02/08

In reply to iPhone Mosaic Celebrates 10,000 Apps and Counting
Giz does those stories on useful iPhone Apps (my iPhone thanks Giz), but it'd be interesting to have a story on the most useless, crapulous, poorly-implemented iPhone apps as well. With that many apps in the wild, some have got to really suck. There should be a contest for worst.
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AmishJohn
12/02/08

In reply to iPhone Mosaic Celebrates 10,000 Apps and Counting
So, I'm guessing 9,750 flashlight apps?
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92BuickLeSabre
12/02/08

In reply to iPhone Mosaic Celebrates 10,000 Apps and Counting
Wilt Chamberlain's was better.
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Purple Dave
11/19/08

In reply to Digital Photos Act as Unique Fingerprints in Finding Criminals with Digital Cameras
Yeah, um, all you need to do is open the file in MS Paint, change the image size a few times (both bigger and smaller), open the resulting image in an image viewer, resize it to fit the screen, take a screencap, and trim off the extra bits. Ta-da, all the pixel data that could be used to tie the image to a make/model of camera is left behind, all the information that's normally encoded into the image is lost, and all the specific processes the image has been put through should be nearly impossible to recreate, since you're not even dealing with the same specific image file anymore (therefore _NO_ alteration data should still be attached to the file).
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thesoundman
11/19/08

In reply to Digital Photos Act as Unique Fingerprints in Finding Criminals with Digital Cameras
"since each digital camera has a shelf life of about 18 months"

18 months??? I've had the same digital camera for almost 6 years now.
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bobdobbs
11/19/08

@thesoundman: Time to pry open the wallet, shake out the moths, and upgrade. Digital cameras are the new disposables.
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bobdobbs
11/18/08

In reply to Digital Photos Act as Unique Fingerprints in Finding Criminals with Digital Cameras
I can't waits until Oliver Stone gets wind of this.
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frigg
11/18/08

In reply to Digital Photos Act as Unique Fingerprints in Finding Criminals with Digital Cameras
Couldn't they ostensibly encode unique identifiers to each camera/photo, just like they do with each color printer/printout?
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superhappyfuntime
11/18/08

In reply to Digital Photos Act as Unique Fingerprints in Finding Criminals with Digital Cameras
I'm confused on a number of fronts. First off, how's it help knowing what make and model camera they had? Ohh, a Nikon D40? There are only a couple hundred thousand of them in existence.

Secondly, couldn't messing around with the levels / color effect this technique?

And finally, to those mentioning EXIF, if you have a clue (which surprisingly a lot of people don't, so I guess you do have a point) you'd resave the image in a compressed metadata killing mannor (such as "save for web" in photoshop) and that'd end that.
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frigg
11/18/08

@latterman: Knowing which cameras were preferred by the bad guys would help camera companies improve their targeted advertising.
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