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It could have been worse, he could have had a tab open with midget porn ;P Seriously, guys, sanitize your screenshots. Every screenshot I take, I crop down as

by Kenji 11y ago

It could have been worse, he could have had a tab open with midget porn ;P Seriously, guys, sanitize your screenshots. Every screenshot I take, I crop down as much as possible and check for stuff like that thoroughly. Bookmarks, tabs, windows, system tray, notification, they all could potentially contain very private or even incriminating information.

distances 11y ago
Or just take a screenshot of the intended content instead of the whole screen. Most (?) screenshot software have a feature for choosing a specific window / section of a window.
- raverbashing 11y ago
  On MacOS it's builtin, Cmd + Shift + 4 lets you select a screen area (yeah, not as intuitive as having a PrtScrn button)
  - skykooler 11y ago
    But at least MacOS screenshot keys automatically save the screenshot. Took me ages to figure out that on XP you have to paste into Paint or something after hitting the 'printscr' button.
  - hollander 11y ago
    He used his friggin phone to make the screenshot. That just shows how intuitive he is. And I may joke about it, but it probably is the easiest way to do this when you're not logged into twitter on the laptop.
  - pidg 11y ago
    And <Cmd Shift 4> <Space> lets you take a screenshot of a window!
coldtea 11y ago
But I thought only criminals had something to hide /s!
syberspace 11y ago
you expect someone who doesnt even know how to actually take a screenshot (with some software) to know how to crop said screenshot?
gnufied 11y ago
Except he used probably camera phone to take screenshot because his Monitor's brand is in it.
- jpindar 11y ago
  On Android phones at least, it's trivial to crop a photo before sharing it.
newscracker 11y ago
Edit: This is about taking screenshots of a device fro the same device. I see in another comment that the screenshot here was a photo taken by a smartphone (which is a different topic). This is really an issue most people aren't aware of. People somehow learn how to take screenshots of their entire desktop on computers and share them, but also somehow fail to learn how to take screenshots of a window or crop/blur them appropriately. Or perhaps they're always in a hurry and don't have the time to look up how to deal with it. I have learned which banks some people use (online banking tab open), which browser they use, which programs are running on their system (from the task bar), which Facebook pages they have open, whom they're messaging with on Facebook, which other articles around the web they're reading, and so many other details just by looking at screenshots. It may not be an issue that I got to know these, but it's an information leak that should've been avoided. Since people aren't going to change quickly, the only solution I can think of is having the screenshot feature or software on all platforms ask the user with a simple UI what they would like to black/blur out and then save that. Dear Apple, here's a cue to build this right into iOS and OS X to continue with the "privacy matters" motto for users (of course, it would be great if Google and MS also embrace this across all their platforms).
- Vendan 11y ago
  In windows, try snipping tool. Comes stock with 7 and up, lets you select a window, or a rectangular area, or even a free form "draw a circle around what you want" mode. And then you can save it or copy and paste it somewhere. So yeah, MS has had this handled for years, just people don't know about it.
  - newscracker 11y ago
    Well, I wasn't really looking for solutions myself since I know how to get screenshots and crop/blur/mask them appropriately on different platforms. My comment was more about people not knowing how to do these. On Windows though, I use Greenshot [0] to capture the screen or a window or a specific region of the screen, with options to send the capture to one of several programs directly. Paint.NET [1] is what I normally use for cropping/annotations/masking, etc. [0]: http://getgreenshot.org/ http://getgreenshot.org/ [1]: http://getpaint.net/ http://getpaint.net/

by Kenji 11y ago

distances 11y ago

Or just take a screenshot of the intended content instead of the whole screen. Most (?) screenshot software have a feature for choosing a specific window / section of a window.

raverbashing 11y ago
On MacOS it's builtin, Cmd + Shift + 4 lets you select a screen area (yeah, not as intuitive as having a PrtScrn button)
- skykooler 11y ago
  But at least MacOS screenshot keys automatically save the screenshot. Took me ages to figure out that on XP you have to paste into Paint or something after hitting the 'printscr' button.
- hollander 11y ago
  He used his friggin phone to make the screenshot. That just shows how intuitive he is. And I may joke about it, but it probably is the easiest way to do this when you're not logged into twitter on the laptop.
- pidg 11y ago
  And <Cmd Shift 4> <Space> lets you take a screenshot of a window!

coldtea 11y ago

But I thought only criminals had something to hide /s!

syberspace 11y ago

you expect someone who doesnt even know how to actually take a screenshot (with some software) to know how to crop said screenshot?

gnufied 11y ago

Except he used probably camera phone to take screenshot because his Monitor's brand is in it.

jpindar 11y ago
On Android phones at least, it's trivial to crop a photo before sharing it.

newscracker 11y ago

Edit: This is about taking screenshots of a device fro the same device. I see in another comment that the screenshot here was a photo taken by a smartphone (which is a different topic). This is really an issue most people aren't aware of. People somehow learn how to take screenshots of their entire desktop on computers and share them, but also somehow fail to learn how to take screenshots of a window or crop/blur them appropriately. Or perhaps they're always in a hurry and don't have the time to look up how to deal with it. I have learned which banks some people use (online banking tab open), which browser they use, which programs are running on their system (from the task bar), which Facebook pages they have open, whom they're messaging with on Facebook, which other articles around the web they're reading, and so many other details just by looking at screenshots. It may not be an issue that I got to know these, but it's an information leak that should've been avoided. Since people aren't going to change quickly, the only solution I can think of is having the screenshot feature or software on all platforms ask the user with a simple UI what they would like to black/blur out and then save that. Dear Apple, here's a cue to build this right into iOS and OS X to continue with the "privacy matters" motto for users (of course, it would be great if Google and MS also embrace this across all their platforms).

Vendan 11y ago
In windows, try snipping tool. Comes stock with 7 and up, lets you select a window, or a rectangular area, or even a free form "draw a circle around what you want" mode. And then you can save it or copy and paste it somewhere. So yeah, MS has had this handled for years, just people don't know about it.
- newscracker 11y ago
  Well, I wasn't really looking for solutions myself since I know how to get screenshots and crop/blur/mask them appropriately on different platforms. My comment was more about people not knowing how to do these. On Windows though, I use Greenshot [0] to capture the screen or a window or a specific region of the screen, with options to send the capture to one of several programs directly. Paint.NET [1] is what I normally use for cropping/annotations/masking, etc. [0]: http://getgreenshot.org/ http://getgreenshot.org/ [1]: http://getpaint.net/ http://getpaint.net/