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Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video

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Yes, they had the plain text shader files embedded in their app, easily extractable. It's been like that since they first released 2.0. Path has (or had) them embedded, too. It's still their IP though, and publishing them as "open source" is unethical and probably illegal. Just because something is feasible doesn't mean you should do it. The GPUImage-based execution environment is fine, but you should remove these sh…

Having explored a lot of app bundles this way, I can report that many iOS apps have shaders and other similar files (e.g., plists, HTML files) stored as plain text in the bundle.

PNG files are obfuscated, but that's reversible:

http://www.axelbrz.com.ar/?mod=iphone-png-images-normalizer

This kind of spelunking can be a good way to learn from other developers about how to approach some problems. However, I agree with other commenters that it would be morally shaky to re-use any of another app's files in my own app.

Re: Show HN: Instagram filters hacked and open sourced. Supports photo and video

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"... Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown. This repository is currently disabled. For more details please see the takedown notice ..."

didn't take long ~ https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2012-03-01-instag... ... It's a bit naughty to post this here, a hacker-like thing to do but would be better appreciated at 4chan.

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