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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by lrossi on Sunday December 06, 2020 @06:11PM (#25327578)
This kind of techniques have been discussed here many times. See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078747

I think one of the reasons people use blurring/pixelation is that it looks nicer than black boxes.

Wondering if it would make sense to build a tool that renders a pixelated version of lorem ipsum or something like that. It would be secure while also looking good.

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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by Hedepig on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:48AM (#25331615)
The added benefit of this would be wasting the time of a would-be hacker
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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by amself on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:55AM (#25331665)
Security by attrition.
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