In this post, Craig Ball recounts repurposing his crossword puzzling skills to solve what appeared to be a metadata mystery using clever forensics techniques.  In the end, Craig provides readers with a practical means to recover EXIF metadata from inline photos where the metadata has seemingly vanished in transit.  As he moves through his story, he provides some useful background on application vs. system metadata, a little history on picture formats, how picture files can change as we share and save them, and more.  Continue reading →