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Re:Unredacter: Never ever use pixelation as a redaction tech... by sircastor on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:21PM (#34032369)
Does it do this predictively or intuitively somehow? How does it know your password? Is it keeping it as clear text on the client side?
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Re:Unredacter: Never ever use pixelation as a redaction tech... by brokensegue on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:25PM (#34032404)
it hashes all the substrings you type to check for collisions.e.g. *****
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Re:Unredacter: Never ever use pixelation as a redaction tech... by thedorkknight on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:14PM (#34032838)
It probably checks each token's hash for a match. Hold on, trying it now: *****
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Re:Unredacter: Never ever use pixelation as a redaction tech... by b1ue64 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:34PM (#34033395)
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