If you’ve ever pixelated an email address or blurred a phone number before putting an image onto the internet in order to protect someone’s privacy, I’ve got bad news for you: Researchers at the University of California-San Diego have found that the popular Photoshop redaction techniques are decodable such that the underlying text can be read.
Pixelating and blurring doesn’t work to hide text | Fusion (via infoneer-pulse)
That’s wonderful!
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I wonder if the black bar technique works better. JPEG artifacts may not help.