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Early digital cameras could be fingerprinted by looking at dead pixels (there are over a hundred million ways to have three dead pixels in a one megapixel camera, so if these are uniformly distributed, that, in the early days, when few cameras existed, have almost guaranteed uniqueness). It wouldn’t surprise me if that still is possible by looking at minor variations in light sensitivity across pixels (that might require having access to lots of photos by a single camera, though)


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