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Anonymising

How to remove metadata from an audio or MP3 file

Clearing the ID3 tags or MP4 atoms strips the container in seconds, but the microphone fingerprint and the mains-hum ENF stamp live in the waveform and survive it.

Anonymising By The undetectable.me team
Anonymising

How to remove metadata from a voice recording

The container tags on a voice file strip out like any other audio, but the speaker's voiceprint and the microphone signature stay in the sound, so the recording can still be tied to a person and a device.

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Anonymising

How to remove metadata or ID3 tags from a music file

Clearing the ID3 tags and embedded cover-art data on a track is worth doing, but the audio is unchanged, so the acoustic fingerprint that Shazam and Content ID match still points to the master.

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Anonymising

How to remove location data from an audio file

Audio rarely carries a GPS tag to delete, but it carries the electric network frequency, a mains-hum trace of which power grid it was recorded on, and that lives in the waveform where a strip cannot reach.

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How to post a photo anonymously

Scrubbing the file is the easy third of it; the account you post from and the location, face and sensor noise in the pixels are what actually deanonymise you.

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Tracing & identity

How to strip ENF and microphone fingerprint from audio

Audio carries a mains-hum time-and-grid stamp (ENF) and a device signature (microphone fingerprint), both in the signal not the metadata, and both are hard to remove cleanly.

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Anonymising

How to remove GPS and location from a photo

The GPS tag is the easy half, the visible scene is the durable half, and modern models can geolocate from pixels alone.

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Anonymising

How to make a photo untraceable

"Untraceable" is a direction, not a state. The five channels a photo leaks on, what removing each actually achieves, and where the ceiling sits.

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Anonymising

How to anonymise a photo before posting

Posting hands your photo to a system you do not control. What the platform keeps, what survives the upload, and why publishing is the step you cannot take back.

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