MAT, "composed of a GUI application, a CLI application and a library, to anonymize/remove metadata," is a very useful tool[1] found in Tails[2] Linux and in the Debian Packages.[3]
MAT leader, 'julien voisin'[4], said on the MAT mailing list[5], "If someone wants to take over the maintenance/leadership, I'll be happy to do my very best to help him/her."[6]
MAT has been under scrutiny recently, including a web page which says, "We took a closer look at the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit and found a security problem."[7], in Debian Bug reports "mat doesn't remove metadata in embedded images in PDFs"[8],[9],[10], lists,[11] and a recent Debian Security Advisory[12]:
"Hartmut Goebel discovered that MAT, a toolkit to anonymise/remove metadata from files did not remove metadata from images embededed in PDF documents. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-3+deb8u1. This update disables PDF support in MAT entirely. We recommend that you upgrade your mat packages."
On jvoisin's blog, "The current version has bugs, and doesn't work on Python3, I wouldn't advise anyone to use it"[13], "developers: if you want to maintain MAT, I'll be happy to do my very best to help you, but I don't feel like reviewing and merging patches, sorry."
Please say a kind word to jvoisin and if you have the skills and ability, arrange with jvoisin for a clean transition of leadership so MAT doesn't end here.
[1] https://mat.boum.org/
[2] https://tails.boum.org/
[3] https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=mat
[4] julien.voisin@dustri.org *or* jvoisin on irc.oftc.net
[5] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/mat-dev
[6] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/mat-dev/2016-October/000126.html
[7] https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2016/using-tails-be-careful-embedded-metadata
[8] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=826101
[9] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839068
[10] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mat
[11] https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-privacy-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20160919/001023.html
[12] https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3708
[13] http://dustri.org/b/mat-is-currently-on-hold.html
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @02:19AM
Fuck your dead project, loser! Haw haw.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @02:25AM
I know, right? I can't wait for Shitstain Mews to die too! Even better, I can't wait for the old assholes who run this shithole to fucking die!!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @02:32AM
Time for regime change. Change every nigger. Replace with wigger.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday November 14 2016, @07:37AM
This submission would have profited from the proper use of hyperlinks. So instead of
with three links added as footnotes, it should read:
Although it would probably been better to put the link directly at the tool's name (which doesn't need to be bolded, BTW):
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.