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Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

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post #35

Has anyone tried a long exposure to see if the motion smears into something discernible? Obviously harder to expose a bright screen without some ND since the shutter speed is the phone's main exposure control

If you zoom out to 25 % the text is clearly visible and screenshottable.

Probably the lower frequencies of noise are not matched? Not sure if the frequencies of the order of movement frequency can actually be matched

Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

#62

You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes: Lighten, Screen, Addition, Darken, Multiply, Linear burn, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, or Luminance. https://ibb.co/DDQBJDKR

Or just copy the text from the url. Not very secure, really. :D

Or just ... record a video of the screen.

Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

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post #39

Coinbase was hacked for $400M when literally someone from outsourced support services was taking screenshots on their phone! The culprit had more than 10k photos of all security details for thousands of wealthy customers.

If it's even true someone from outsourced support has access to some sensitive security details then using this dumpster is almost like throwing your money out of the window.

Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

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You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes: Lighten, Screen, Addition, Darken, Multiply, Linear burn, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, or Luminance. https://ibb.co/DDQBJDKR

> You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes:

You actually don't need any image editing skill. Here is a browser-only solution:

1. Take two screenshots.

2. Open these screenshots in two separate tabs on your browser.

3. Switch between tabs very, very quickly (use CTRL-Tab)

Source: tested on Firefox

Re: Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it

#69

You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes: Lighten, Screen, Addition, Darken, Multiply, Linear burn, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, or Luminance. https://ibb.co/DDQBJDKR

Neat idea.

A friend of mine made a similar animated GIF type captcha a few years ago but based on multiple scrolling horizontal bars that would each reveal their portion of the underlying image including letters, and made a (friendly) bet that it should be pretty hard to solve.

Grabbing the entire set of frames and greyscaling them, doing an average over all of them and then applying a few minor fixups like thresholding and contrast adjustment worked easily enough as the letters were reveleaed in more frames than not (I don't think that would affect the difficulty much though if it were any diffierent). After that the rest of the image was pretty amenable to character recognition.

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