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Re: A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

#71
The assumable backstory of this repo:

This is really the collision between designers and programmers. Due to aesthetics, designers try and cover text up by using a blur. Programmers see this from a functional stand point, they see some security issues. Programmers act to prove their methodology is superior and that is the story of how this repo came into existence.

Re: A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

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post #35

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> There is still a risk to leak the length of the password. If the font is known and the size of the rendered text can be inferred that would limit the search space considerably. I do a lot of screencast videos and what I typically do is put a black rectangle well past the point where my secret text really ends. If my secret is: mysupersecretpassword You might end up seeing a black bar of: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||…

Your fear is one of the reasons I have z/x bound to 1 frame backwards/forwards in my editing software, it lets me quickly look for such issues. However, glitches in editing software can still rarely occur, so for very confidential footage I first censor it, render it out in an intermediary format, check the render to make sure it's 100% correctly censored and then use that rendered footage to continute editing. Also,…

Hi, I'm thinking of learning how to edit videos. What software do you use, and what is the best way to learn it, for someone who isn't a master at photo/video editing, but is a power user of computers generally?

Re: A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

#74
post #40

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Yep, just replace the original password for "password" and pixelate that, if it really must look like a real password. And make sure to never use "password" as a real password, but that's a different level of shooting oneself in the foot.

Or better yet, embed easter-eggs. Possibly insults to the people prying into your secrets, or possibly alternative announcements.

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

Re: A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

#76

Asking for a friend: what's current state of the art in reversing pixelated censorship in Japanese movies? Obviously a tougher problem because the original is not known, but you'd think a well-trained GNN should be able to make a pretty good guess.

Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks: https://github.com/deeppomf/DeepCreamPy

Re: A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

#77
post #4

Is "pixelized" the norm somewhere? I'm used to "pixelated."

"pixelated" has a pre-existing meaning in English (discombobulated, airheaded, tipsy). An English speaker already familiar with the word might choose "pixelized" to avoid the collision.

Re: A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

#79

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Yes, in pdf, add bars, & then print it again as pdf, but as image.

Even black bars all leak the face that there’s something hidden

Oh sorry, my bad, you mean fact, not face. Yes, I agree.

Re: A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots

#80

Asking for a friend: what's current state of the art in reversing pixelated censorship in Japanese movies? Obviously a tougher problem because the original is not known, but you'd think a well-trained GNN should be able to make a pretty good guess.

Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks: https://github.com/deeppomf/DeepCreamPy

Interesting, but seems to only work on static cartoon images where regions to uncensor have been manually identified.
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