"If you’ve ever pixelated an email address or blurred a phone number before putting an image onto the..."

“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.”

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Pixelating and blurring doesn’t work to hide text | Fusion (via infoneer-pulse)

That’s wonderful!

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/147960304237