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Re:Hackers Claim They Can Read Encrypted WhatsApp and Snapch... by cromano on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:24AM (#11699748)
> John McAfee supplied a screen shot from his team’s server. They removed all pixels which could identify the server.

I'm curious about this. How would someone identify the server using pixels in the screenshot?

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Re:Hackers Claim They Can Read Encrypted WhatsApp and Snapch... by onion2k on Sunday May 15, 2016 @02:27AM (#11699764)
At a guess I would suggest "pixels" is the journalist's interpretation of "information". So really it will have had the EXIF meta data stripped out.
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