[tor-talk] [announce] MAT 0.1 is out

jvoisin julien.voisin at dustri.org
Sun Oct 30 23:23:50 UTC 2011


On 30 October 2011 21:36, Advrk Aplmrkt <avkaplmkt at gmail.com> wrote:

> This looks great, will there be Windoze and Mac OS X binaries
> available? Or is there documentation on how to build them?
>
nop : it don't use OSX nor Windows,
so I really don't know how to make MAT running on those platforms,
sorry :/


> Thanks for making this! Is there a road map for future features?
>
Only a small TODO file.
But I want to implement "un-watermarking" measures.

>
> On 30 October 2011 14:04, jvoisin <julien.voisin at dustri.org> wrote:
> > Hello everyone !
> >
> > The first release of MAT is here !
> > MAT stands for Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit, it was my 2011 GSoC
> project
> > for Tor.
> >
> > It's a toolbox composed of a GUI application, a CLI application, and a
> > library.
> >
> > - What is a metadata ?
> > Metadata consist of information that characterizes data.
> > Metadata are used to provide documentation for data products.
> > In essence, metadata answer who, what, when, where, why, and how about
> every
> > facet of the data that are being documented.
> >
> > - Why metadata can be a risk for your privacy ?
> > Metadata within a file can tell a lot about you.
> > Cameras record data about when a picture was taken and what camera was
> used.
> > Office documents like pdf or Office automatically adds author and company
> > information to documents and spreadsheets.
> > Maybe you don't want to disclose those information on the web.
> >
> > For now, Mat only removes metadata from your files, it does not anonymise
> > their content,
> > nor can it handle watermarking, steganography, or any too custom metadata
> > field/system.
> >
> > - Supported formats so far:
> >     Portable Network Graphics (.png)
> >     JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg, ...)
> >     Open Documents (.odt, .odx, .ods, ...)
> >     Office OpenXml (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, ...)
> >     Portable Document Fileformat (.pdf)
> >     Tape ARchives (.tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, ...)
> >     Zip (.zip)
> >     MPEG AUdio (.mp3, .mp2, .mp1, ...)
> >     Ogg Vorbis (.ogg, ...)
> >     Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
> >     Torrent (.torrent)
> >
> > - Where does MAT lives ?
> > MAT is already packaged in Haven (https://www.haven-project.org/),
> > soon Tails (https://tails.boum.org/),
> > and in debian (http://bugs.debian.org/638504).
> > Stables versions are here : https://mat.boum.org/files/
> >
> > * git repo : https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/jvoisin/mat.git
> > * official website : https://mat.boum.org/
> > * old blog : mat-tor.blogspot.com
> >
> > If you have question, patches, bug reports, or simply want to talk about
> > this project, fell free ton contact jvoisin on irc.oftc.net
> >
> > -- Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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