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by mmb 6266 days ago
Can't these by easily unblurred to reveal Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher's email addresses?
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Unlikely, but it would be a cinch to determine the number of letters in the address; do a little creative guessing with that value and you could probably find it. Of course, having an interesting conversation with them would likely be a little harder ;)
The addresses are likely for their publicists.
Possible but I'd be surprised if Ashton Kutcher's publicist was using an aol.com email address.
It can, not easily though, I think you've been watching too much CSI... :P
Try googling "deconvolution". This appears to just be a gaussian blur, so it should be trivial.