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OP isn't saying the person is barely tech literate because they didn't expect the image to be restorable, but that they're likely barely tech literate because t
by wolrah 4y ago
OP isn't saying the person is barely tech literate because they didn't expect the image to be restorable, but that they're likely barely tech literate because they were using a word processor as an image editor.
Abusing Microsoft Office applications to do things they're not designed to do has sort of a bathtub curve of likelihood versus tech literacy. The people most likely to do it are either largely tech illiterate or skilled hackers with far too much time on their hands.
- thrashh 4y agoAre y’all telling me you don’t use cropping in your word processor? I’m well aware that it’s reversible so I’m careful of what I put in to begin with, but I’m not going to open an image editor unless I really have to I have other shit to do
- zinekeller 4y agoAgain, it's not for 99% of people who have just cropped out the expanse of the sky to focus on the sunflower, it's for journalists and whistleblowers who normally be not familiar with the pitfalls of the technology that they're using. That's it, no-one is forcing you to use the built-in cropping tool if you don't care that someone might see what the whole picture is but it is a valuable information for someone blowing the whistle in cases like child abuses at certain subcontractors of a well-known car factory.
- thrashh 4y agoNot at all. This affects everyone Kevin in accounting might be making a document for work and might take a screenshot of his entire desktop to put in an onboarding document, intending to crop it. He could have a password in Notepad off to the side