The immense power of technology is a double edged sword. It has the ability to free us from injustices or strip us of the last vestiges of our privacy. As marijuana growers, maintaining our privacy and anonymity is paramount to our freedom. Today the investigative tools available to law enforcement are growing just as rapidly as technology evolves. We can do nothing to slow this march of progress. We most know the tools that are used against us and stay one step ahead.
For those of you who found this news report alarming, you’re not alone. Your freedom and your sanity depend on your ability to walk the fine line between a life of blissful ignorance and a life of paranoid disillusion. We must remain alert, cautious, and informed. Please share your knowledge of any other investigative tools that may be unknown to the community. Thanks you.
Never Use Cell Phones to Photograph Marijuana!!!,
There are a few tools that can scrub meta data;
http://www.digitalconfidence.com/downloads.html
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30
and an online service that offers the same service;
http://camerasummary.com/
The popular site imgur.com automagically scrubs all EXIF data when you upload photos there.
Good to know and thanks for sharing. I checked out your blog Beyond Chronic. Keep up the good work. I’ll be visiting it again when I have more time.
That’s good info Old Hippie. I wish photo bucket did that. Damn site got me into a bit of a pickle when I was posting pics in an “anonymous” forum. Little did I know my camera was set up to record both my name and geo-location. I’ll have to check out imgur
Just use your snipping tool to erase data
Im pretty sure if you screen shot your pic then save it to paint or something its all good
ObscuraCam is a good app for wiping metadata as well as obscuring faces and other identifying characteristics a photo may contain. Hope this helps.