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To: rlmorel
Heh, I’ll fix that for him right now.

Not to be too picky, but you should always block/black out sensitive numbers & text in photos instead of blurring. It can be trivial to reverse common software blurs.

Posted for the general benefit of FR OPSEC. :)
87 posted on 06/02/2013 8:36:41 PM PDT by rpierce (We have taglines now? :)
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To: rpierce

Interesting. I would like to see that done. I don’t think it would be as trivial as simply reverse engineering a gaussian blur and doing the obverse of the setting to put it back.

Once the data is destroyed (as it would be in a jpg once you apply the blur and save the image) the data is gone.

The analogy would be a picture that was not exposed correctly. There is a limit to the amount of manipulation that can be done on an image if the data simply isn’t there. If someone is wearing a black shirt and the basic image doesn’t have enough shades of gray to distinguish detail, then you will never get the detail out because it isn’t there to begin with.


95 posted on 06/03/2013 3:10:21 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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