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>My goal was to make certain that if it leaked, the overtyped expiry date should make it useless after a certain point, and the company name should make any com
by garblegarble 7y ago
>My goal was to make certain that if it leaked, the overtyped expiry date should make it useless after a certain point, and the company name should make any company other than that one question the source.
>As a side effect, it'd also clearly identify the source of any leaks - but that wasn't my primary goal.
Wouldn't a malicious actor just add block text over your text saying "only for identity verification for SomeOtherCompany" ?
They could do the same for the expiration date, although I wonder if any company actually bothers to check the expiration date
- 0xffff2 7y agoI don't know how GP did it, but I would have made the text translucent and make sure it covered the entire image so that there's no easy way to obfuscated the watermark without also obfuscating the license itself.
- garblegarble 7y agoAhh, of course - I didn't think of that. Thanks, obvious now that you mention it :-)
- DoctorOetker 7y agotranslucent text is nearly trivial to remove