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For the record, blurring (even when applied appropriately) is still a pretty bad idea for hiding information [1]. I know this has been on HN a few times. I'm n

For the record, blurring (even when applied appropriately) is still a pretty bad idea for hiding information [1]. I know this has been on HN a few times. I'm not sure what you can do with the GA key or if it's even private, but just adjusting levels in gimp shows the numbers. [1] http://dheera.net/projects/blur http://dheera.net/projects/blur

athenot 12y ago
I was going to make the same comment and then I realized blurring it is pretty useless: that info is in the JS snippet for GA on that site (and yes the key is the same).
- andrewstuart2 12y ago
  That's what I figured, but since the author still blurred it I figured it was still worth mentioning.
  - kevin_thibedeau 12y ago
    The technique from the dheera.com article won't work well in this case because the filter is applied non-uniformly as a targeted spot. It becomes much more difficult to generate pixelated patterns to compare against. The Gaussian blur does however enable the simpler use of deconvolution to reveal the obscured digits.