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

[Advrk Aplmrkt]

This looks great, will there be Windoze and Mac OS X binaries
available? Or is there documentation on how to build them?
Thanks for making this! Is there a road map for future features?

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