I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score

Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by garblegarble on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:56AM (#21442167)

>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

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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by 0xffff2 on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:39AM (#21442601)

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.

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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by garblegarble on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:33PM (#21447933)

Ahh, of course - I didn't think of that. Thanks, obvious now that you mention it :-)

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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by DoctorOetker on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:09PM (#21457815)

translucent text is nearly trivial to remove

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