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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by closeparen on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:59PM (#25328653)
People say the same thing about scans of printouts. But I guess there is a reason for those.
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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by MattGaiser on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:21PM (#25328763)
Those at least destroy any non-visible data.
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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by pabs3 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:17PM (#25329285)
I feel like contrast enhancement or similar would be able to bring that back.
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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by Scoundreller on Monday December 07, 2020 @04:07AM (#25330522)
That’s also why they scan in b&w with a potato. Also has the side-effect of making many graphs/charts impossible to interpret.
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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by esquivalience on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:19AM (#25331435)
> "with a potato"

This is either a typo or I want to know more about it.

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Re:A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots by chki on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:28AM (#25331495)
It's an Internet running Gag, if the quality of something produced by a technical product is bad, you might say: "Was this filmed/calculated/etc with a potato?"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/reco...

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