"Corrupt data" reported by exif

I run exif on

$ exif 4sftcoo.jpg
Corrupt data
The data provided does not follow the specification.
ExifLoader: The data supplied does not seem to contain EXIF data.

I was wondering why the error?

2 Answers

The answer you are looking for is exiftool filename.jpg

I just want to point out that FB removes or replaces most of the keys that identify YOU personally, they used to have a field that read "ban_account" (sometime last year?) as the value and it would put my account in timeout like 10 minutes after posting the photo

james@8300-SFF:~/Downloads$ exiftool 120450723_631453814209931_1925887118753716863_n.jpg
ExifTool Version Number : 10.33
File Name : 120450723_631453814209931_1925887118753716863_n.jpg
Directory : .
File Size : 28 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2020:10:01 16:59:26-04:00
File Access Date/Time : 2020:10:01 17:00:10-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2020:10:01 16:59:28-04:00
File Permissions : rw-rw-r--
File Type : JPEG
File Type Extension : jpg
MIME Type : image/jpeg
JFIF Version : 1.02
Resolution Unit : None
X Resolution : 1
Y Resolution : 1
Current IPTC Digest : 7549a31ec9fd5e72122115c64d3e8be9
Special Instructions : FBMD01000aa2010000660d0000261e00002a220000ec2600007f360000f6490000f24c00006a510000d7550000ea6f0000
Original Transmission Reference : dHVOFM1DHmPLnMW15mYi
Image Width : 540
Image Height : 434
Encoding Process : Progressive DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample : 8
Color Components : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size : 540x434
Megapixels : 0.234
james@8300-SFF:~/Downloads$ exiftool 120450723_631453814209931_1925887118753716863_n.jpg

May be the data has been removed from the given image. In general facebook and other social medias removes such data

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