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Update Readme, add License.
author David Barts <davidb@stashtea.com>
date Tue, 12 May 2020 16:23:43 -0700
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-    <title>Introducing ExifWasher</title>
+    <title>Introducing JpegWasher</title>
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     <h2>Executive Summary</h2>
     <p>This program makes it easy to remove metadata from the digital images you
       create.</p>
-    <h2>What is “Metadata” and Why Would I Want to Remove It?</h2>
+    <h2>What is “Metadata,” and Why Would I Want to Remove It?</h2>
     <p>You may not realize it, but image files can (and typically do!) contain
       more than just image data. These data can include your camera make, model,
       and serial number; the location where you took the photo; the software you
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       evils of slavery, child labor, poverty, war, and imperialism have all been
       documented photographically, and such photographs have often proved
       instrumental in helping to motivate social change.</p>
-    <p>Because of the metadata they contain, digital photographs contain data
-      which has been used to determine who took them, and in some cases to exact
-      retribution against those photographers. JpegWasher makes it easy to see
-      and remove the privacy-compromising metadata in your images.</p>
+    <p>Because of the metadata they contain, digital photographs contain
+      evidence which has been used to determine who took them, and in some cases
+      to exact retribution against those photographers, who believed they were
+      sharing their photos anonymously. JpegWasher makes it easy to see and
+      remove the privacy-compromising metadata in your images.</p>
     <p>Even if your images are not of such a sensitive nature, that extra data
       takes up space. It is not uncommon for a 100 KiB image to contain 20 KiB
       of metadata in it; if that image is on a web page, that makes for 20 KiB
@@ -45,13 +46,13 @@
       images without color-management metadata properly (I’m talking about <em>you</em>,
       Apple Computer, Inc.) will display colors that often look all “washed-out”
       or otherwise incorrect.</p>
-    <p>Likewise, there are already plenty of simple-to-use, user-friendly tools
-      out there for cleaning the metadata out of image files, but they
-      inevitably delete <em>all</em> metadata, resulting in files that often
-      display improperly. Also of concern, many of these “tools” are actually
-      online services. If you’re concerned about your privacy, why would you
-      trust the images you’re processing to some unknown third party, who may be
-      linked somehow to those who might want to retaliate against you?</p>
+    <p>There are already plenty of simple-to-use, user-friendly tools out there
+      for cleaning the metadata out of image files, but they inevitably delete <em>all</em>
+      metadata, resulting in files that often display improperly. Also of
+      concern, many of these “tools” are actually online services. If you’re
+      concerned about your privacy, why would you trust the images you’re
+      processing to some unknown third party, who may be linked somehow to those
+      who might want to retaliate against you?</p>
     <p>I wrote this program because I wanted there to be a quick, easy way to
       scrub images before they even left a photographer’s computer and made
       their way onto the Internet, and for that program to leave vital metadata