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Re:NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on pre... by qqtt on Sunday October 24, 2021 @08:58PM (#28983453)
Opaque boxes have been issues before, when they end up being "semi-transparent" and you can up the brightness to beat them.

Safest is probably just to cut/crop the sensitive bits out.

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Re:NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on pre... by Breza on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:59AM (#29106005)
This is how I get FOIA responses. Agencies just remove the pieces they don't want me to see, sometimes with a code to tell me why it was excised. I use the redaction feature built into Acrobat.
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Re:NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on pre... by raxxorrax on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @06:37AM (#29011442)
The information is lost if you have a flat image without any layers. You should take additional steps for other formats of course. Granted, it has to be completely opaque of course.
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