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Well, never ever use this particular implementation strategy for pixelation for redacting text. It's fairly easy to come up with another algorithm that would "
by iLoveOncall 2y ago
Well, never ever use this particular implementation strategy for pixelation for redacting text.
It's fairly easy to come up with another algorithm that would "pixelate" text but in a random way that can't be retrieved.
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- cuu508 2y agoAs one strategy, replace the original text with text "nice try", and pixelate that ;-)
- EGreg 2y agoThis! But something that is the same length as the input, if you can leak the length
- quectophoton 2y agoStep 1: Draw a solid box, of whatever color you choose, that covers everything you want to censor, because you don't want to risk leaking any information from it in any way. Step 2: Draw whatever censored-looking stuff you want on that now-empty space because you want the censoring to look fancy. Step 3: Spend some time thinking if step 2 was really worth it or not.