[matheweis]

This is not a new problem and can sometimes have disastrous results.

10 years or so ago a variation of this made headlines all over as certain Xerox Workcentres were transposing numbers during scans, due to a compression algorithm that was sometimes matching a different number than the one actually scanned.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...

[antegamisou]

The same algorithm was part of the legendary NSO Group's FORCEDENTRY zero click exploit.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...