Why I Built an Offline Metadata Shredder That Doesn't Just Delete — It Lies

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a small project I’ve been working on lately. The premise is simple: every time we share a photo or a document, we inadvertently leak a massive amount of personal data — from home GPS coordinates to camera serial numbers and even the edit history of a PDF. Using "online privacy services" to clean your files always felt like a paradox to me (sending private data to a server to make it private?). So, I built my own tool that runs strictly locally. I call it DMS (Decep