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by cookieperson 1116 days ago
Removing noise is difficult if not impossible. The best someone could probably do is find a sensor whose noise characteristics are a superposition of their cameras and another additive distribution. There are simple ways to defeat this, but it's best not to share them, as I think the only people ruñning from this kind of tracking would be sketchy criminals.
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> Removing noise is difficult if not impossible.

Completely removing noise is difficult-to-impossible. Attenuating the noise enough to impart a new noise pattern is much easier, though (not saying it's easy, just easier).

I did this sort of thing decades ago as part of larger system used for research.

That's effectively what I said :)
Removing is hard but not impossible: https://www.esenbil.com/photoclean