“Engineers at Polytechnic University Brooklyn have discovered that digital snaps shorn of any metadata still reveal the make and model of camera used to take them. It is possible to work backwards from the relationships of neighboring pixel values in a shot to identify the model-specific demosaicing algorithm that combines red, green, and blue pixels on the sensor into color image pixels. Forensics teams are already licking their chops.”

In ASCII, the letters “PNG”, allowing a person to identify the format easily if it is viewed in a text editor.

Destroying your camera won’t prevent people from being able to use one photo you definitely took to prove that you also took others.

The best defence might be making a habit of lending your camera to shady criminal characters. That way, you can at least allege that someone else took the incriminating photos with your camera.

The link above goes to a page that speculates on some possible ways to remove the signature.

I suppose I should consider going back to film. Or destroying my camera after taking incriminating pictures with it.