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dheera on July 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (...

Leave generous margins. JPEGs can have compression artifacts that leak information outside the boundaries of the object.

Houshalter on July 25, 2014 [–]

It shouldn't matter if the original image (the screenshot) didn't contain any information to leak.

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