mat2 Reviews and details

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• How do I remove exif in linux?

  You could also use the privacy tool MAT 2. It is also available as a webapp (hosted by Systemli), although this may not be the best solution depending on your use case. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do I remove exif in linux?

  Metadata Cleaner which makes use of Mat2. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to prevent bsdtar from saving file permissions, owner, and group, etc

  Otherwise you're maybe better off copying the files first and sanitising them before you create the tar. Maybe something like MAT can help here or you could write a script that performs some preset actions to remove or replace any metadata you don't want the files to have before you create the archive. Source: over 1 year ago

• What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos?

  Here is a tool that can be used to strip metadata from images and other files: https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Is there a command to completely erase video GPS and other metadata?

  You can use https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2 to remove metadata of commonly file format. Source: about 2 years ago

• Any page to remove metadata from images or files?

  There's mat2, the successor for the Metadata Anonymization Toolkit. Source: about 2 years ago

• New tool can uncover redacted, pixelated text to reveal sensitive data

  When redacting individual words, you probably don't want to use the same size black box as the rendered word, since someone might be able to figure out what word it was based on the length of the box and the document font. Also, consider removing metadata from digital files using mat2: https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Imagepipe equivalent for Linux

  Mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3: at its core, it's a library, used by an eponymous command-line interface, as well as several file manager extensions. Source: over 2 years ago

• Why this program (Metadata cleaner) from Flatpack needs that much of space? (Mint 20.1)

  Metadata Cleaner is a GUI front-end for mat2. Mat is a command line utility that is very easy to use. It also has much smaller footprint. Install it with sudo apt install mat. Https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2. Source: over 2 years ago

• Bought my first rifle

  While we're at it, run uploaded files through mat2 to remove metadata. Some sites like Imgur appear to strip metadata on uploads, but you don't know whether they keep a copy for themselves. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to remove every possible bit of traceable information from a PDF?

  I don't know if GDrive embeds a watermark to scanned files (anyone?), but you can get rid of most of metadata using mat2 (Metadata Anonymization tool), works wonders for wide variety of files. Source: over 2 years ago

• Awesome Penetration Testing

  Metadata Anonymization Toolkit (MAT) - Metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in Python3. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• YSK: Images, videos, and documents may embed metadata with private informations. Remove them before sending to protect your privacy.

  I would recommend using mat2: it's open source, packaged in a lot of Linux distributions, had an optional web interface and desktop GUI, has been in development since more than 10 years, ... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Tool to anonymize/remove metadata from images and pdfs

  I know of a tool called Metadata Anonymization Toolkit (https://0xacab.org/jvoisin/mat2). Source: about 3 years ago

• The hidden fingerprint inside your photos

  I use mat2 on my desktop/laptop too. Mine's on Linux, not 100% sure if it runs on Windows/Mac as well but it's pretty simple, just open the folder in the terminal and mat2 filename.jpg or mat2 *.* to do the whole batch, seems to work pretty well. :). Source: about 3 years ago