Secret photo duplicator?
 

I'm wondering if there exists any program to integrate with the N900's camera and save two copies of the captured picture - one to the normal Photos directory and another to a hidden directory that can only be accessed via the file manager (or maybe even by taking out the SDHC card and plugging it into a different device).

Seems to me it would be useful for all the people who get told photography is a crime when they try to take pictures of buildings and monuments and such. They'd be able to "delete" the picture but still keep it and plausibly deny that it exists.

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i am going to learn cc# and then i would try to make this type of apps.........

don't you believe!!!!!

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"For all the people who get told photography is a crime"

I can't from the top of my head remember any building or monument in this country that would be illegal to photograph. Save for military installations I suppose. Where do you live? North Korea? :E

I photograph monuments, buildings, and stuff with my big & black & loud DSLR. Only once have I encountered anyone telling me not to photograph something, and even then the law was on my side. The person in question didn't want me to take a photograph of the building she lived in, and even threatened to call the police. As far as I'm aware it's entirely legal to photograph buildings as viewed from public roads, and I was photographing the building on behalf of the company who owned it.

The only actual use for this duplication feature, that I can see, is to be able to keep nasty/naughty pictures of people despite deleting them under their supervision. Not that I have any experience with that, especially not videos.

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Anyone in the United States or United Kingdom has cause to be concerned. Photographing buildings, public transportation, and landmarks is legal. The police and other officials prohibit it though.

You can find many accounts on the Internet. The following are but a few articles discussing the problem:

• Trains, Cameras, and the Constitution
• Warning: Do not take this picture
• Taking Photos In Public Places Is Not A Crime: Analysis
• Italian student tells of arrest while filming for fun

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it can be done with FCamera!
this app takes pictures in RAW format. But there is an option to save a copy of the picture in .jpg..
Si if they ask you to delete it, you'll still have the RAW file, wich you can convert with photoshop or other photo-editting software :)

Hope this sort of answered your question ;)

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lol :D




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If you get asked to delete photos you can always delete it then recover it later using photorec ;) That is just so long as you haven't written anything else to that filesystem, then it is pot-luck as to whether it has been overwritten or not.

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Why not just run a recursive differential copy of your images folder to a location on sd or internal? You don't need an "app" for this. dbuscron and simple shell scripting will accomplish it.

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In public places, one should be able to shoot, never had any problems in Romania (or elsewhere in Europe save for UK). But if a shop has a no-photography sign, then it's a condition of entering the shop and you have agreed to it. If for nothing else, to protect the business from out-of-context shots that get re-labelled (intentionally or not).

The kind of damage one can do to a business by twisted photography is very large. I frankly kind of understand them.

I wonder, however, if the people telling you not to shoot don't have the authority to enforce the rule. E.g., if a shop has a no-photography policy, all they can do is ask you to leave, as they don't have the authority to do anything about it and if they break the gear, they pay, no law defends the aggressor. Police can definitely confiscate gear (and detain you).

Either you are in the right and keep it, or you are in the wrong and shouldn't shoot. I hope I'm wrong, but I have trouble picturing (ha) legitimate uses of double-image photography.

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http://i.imgur.com/AUMPn.jpg

Just sayin'

(Of course, I was 15 at the time so...)