Reinstate Metadata Cleaner

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Short description

It is a fork of abandoned metadata cleaner

Why I think this tool should be added

Seems to be officially recognized by Tails

(It is included in Tails official documentation)

Also there is a report on MAT2 to recommend it too.

So i think if Tails included it, it is safe to recommend by PG

Section on Privacy Guides

Data and Metadata Redaction

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I didn’t understand

Metadata Cleaner will also be made available as a Flatpak on Flathub again.

So it is not public now? Or what?

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It is, but flatpak will be available soon (for now no flatpak version)

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If legit (meaning properly maintained, trusted developers, etc) should absolutely be reinstated.

But it being maintained by proper devs is key

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Seems so, I checked links and it is indeed mentioned by Tails.

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I think if Tails trust the, then devs are already proper. Don’t you think so?

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There is a flatpak version in the releases. Just not available on Flathub.

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I haven’t looked into the topic deeply enough but I hope there is[1] a way to have some CLI running on a given subset of drectories and cleaning any kind of metadata on file change.

Hence, if you do have a photo downloaded going to your Downloads directory, it is automatically processed by some CLI and stripped of everything.
Sounds like a basic tool for a NAS OS.

I could see some drawbacks to it too of course (for example loosing precious data for a souvenir photo) hence why should be selective only.

  1. probably is ↩︎

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The only issue with this program is that it doesn’t change the file name to a random string. The file name is often the biggest metadata of all. EXIF Eraser (Android) does it.

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It is an issue with MAT2. That program is only GUI.

I reported it to MAT2 devs, but this got rejected. You can comment there if you want

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This program is only GUI. Use native MAT2. It can be scripted…

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Personally, my view is that it shouldn’t have been removed in the first place, since it still works and the task it performs hasn’t really changed. File formats and the related EXIF data are, I imagine, mostly “complete.”

That said, is this documentation on the Tails website simply out of date?

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It was pushed to FlatHub in maintained version now!

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