Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
by garblegarble on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:56AM
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>My goal was to make certain that if it leaked, the overtyped expiry date should make it useless after a certain point, and the company name should make any company other than that one question the source.
>As a side effect, it'd also clearly identify the source of any leaks - but that wasn't my primary goal.
Wouldn't a malicious actor just add block text over your text saying "only for identity verification for SomeOtherCompany" ?
They could do the same for the expiration date, although I wonder if any company actually bothers to check the expiration date
Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
by 0xffff2 on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:39AM
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I don't know how GP did it, but I would have made the text translucent and make sure it covered the entire image so that there's no easy way to obfuscated the watermark without also obfuscating the license itself.
Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
by garblegarble on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:33PM
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Ahh, of course - I didn't think of that. Thanks, obvious now that you mention it :-)
Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
by DoctorOetker on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:09PM
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translucent text is nearly trivial to remove
My goal was to make certain that if it leaked, the overtyped expiry date should make it useless after a certain point, and the company name should make any company other than that one question the source.
As a side effect, it'd also clearly identify the source of any leaks - but that wasn't my primary goal.
I moved the text so the name and address (which they already had) and date of birth (which isn't really a secret) were clearly readable.