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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by zepto on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:48PM (#26743570)
> That assumes all thumbnails or pictures hash to the same value.

The same set of values, yes.

> Why would that be? There can be different algorithms, resolutions, crops...

Yes, so you do normalization and reduction before computing the hashes.

And ‘hashes’ doesn’t have to mean literal SHA. Any non-reversible fingerprinting algorithm will do.

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