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by rudasn 882 days ago
I think nowadays the blur feature just makes it look blurry, but it's not the actual original text being blurred.
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How are we to know if someone didn't just use an affine transform? This is another place where ignorance could result in security leaks.
Yeah I'm not fucking around with that. Solid block of black removes the guesses. (Caveats for layered documents like PDFs).
I like to convert to transparent png, cut the area I need removed, use background color (eg black) to indicate that something was removed, and export to jpg.
Programs should have explicit "secure censor" operations.
That would be interesting to read about