Comments on: Metagoofil 1.2 - Metadata Extractor Tool

By: Eina: Metagoofil 1.2 * Quands.cat

Eina: Metagoofil 1.2 * Quands.cat — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:58:43 +0000

[...] Metagoofil és una eina escrita en Python per a l’extracció de metadades de documents d’ofimàtica (PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT) existents en pàgines web públiques. Fa una cerca via Google de documents, els baixa i extreu totes les metadades que trobi. [...]

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:13:09 +0000

Has anyone here seen the article about un-swirling the swirl filter in PS? That is scary for anyone who has posted to Orkut or anywhere else thinking that they won’t be recognized. But, this tool sounds wicked cool. I love it when people leave the metadata in place when they otherwise wish to remain anonymous.

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:30:23 +0000

Who has the facial recognition stuff? are you talking about Google? Is it integrated to orkut? Sorry I didnt get you?

I don;t think there is any people networking website whihc comes wth facial recognition software.. and i dont think its needed at all.

moreover it will be intruding someone’s privacy

By: dre

dre — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:07:31 +0000

well now they have that facial recognition software stuff…

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:52:48 +0000

@dre, you are one of the smart one’s. Usually people click pictures for their personal use and then modify them to upload while uploadin them to orkut etc.

and you clicked a picture specifically for that purpose… it makes sense..

By: dre

dre — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:28:51 +0000

when i took my picture on orkut, there will be no metadata left to find me because i used the physical properties of the camera to prevent my eyes and above from showing

By: fazed

fazed — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:43:05 +0000

nice!
this could be useful during a security test
during the enumeration period. It may also
be useful for beating very simple CAPTCHA’s

@sandeep
nice idea! must check this out sometime.
you could also use this to remove blanked out
usernames and passwords in images then?

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:02:48 +0000

@dre, Thnks for sharing this article. its funny that someone like RSnake can make such a mistake.. well im sure he would have done this knowingly to play a prank.

You can find thousand’s of pictures on networking websites like orkut, where people upload their original pics with slight modification (such as hiding their faces with rectangles) and assume that nobody will be able to recognise them. Needless to say that 99.9% don’t remove the metadata from the images.

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:15:00 +0000

Thanks AndyN for posting the link. Otherwise I would have to google it.

There you go dre.

This link will giveyou each and every detail you may require about the tool. This page also has a link to the sourforge project where you can download the complete code for this project.

FYI, This tool works for MS Word2,MS Word 6, Word Perfect, OPen office, MS Works,Excel, Powerpoint , Tiff, JPEG, WAV, MP3, HTML, PDF, GIF and BMP.

and this tool supports Windows and *nix OS

By: AndyN

AndyN — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:31:51 +0000

Hiya, here’s some more info on the Metadata Extraction Tool developed by National Library of New Zealand.