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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by leokennis on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:53PM (#36296663)
Reminds me of the issue where Xerox machines would replace some 9’s on your scanned documents with 0’s due to over enthusiastic compression.

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by xingped on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:18PM (#36297191)
Holy cow, the implications of that story were terrifying! I can't believe it took 8yrs for someone to notice!
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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by KennyBlanken on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:36PM (#36301528)
It's absolutely astounding that they weren't sued into the ground for that. Contracts, medications, engineering drawings, chemical formulae...
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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by adhvaryu on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:04PM (#36301890)
Wow, I can't believe they shipped the product knowing this could happen and thought that putting 2 warnings in the software guidebook (who reads that?) would suffice. Maybe they only added that in to avoid getting sued.

Also, reading the timeline was great.

> March 2015 The German Federal Office for Safety in Information Technology bans JBIG2 from being used for archival purposes.

Wonder if any other governments took notice as well.

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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by oynqr on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:16AM (#36305219)
I hope they didn't ban lossless JBIG2.
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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft by account42 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:29AM (#36323470)
Wouldn't be an unreasonable thing to do to prevent accidental use of lossy JBIG2. There are better lossless compression formats anyway.
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