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		hawleyal on July 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (... Not really. You would need to have a copy of an uncovered version to know how many lines of text, font size, kerning et al.

DanBC on July 24, 2014 [–]

Some documents are trivially easy to get near copies.

Other documents provide their own context - they have a lot of other text - that you can use to get font, font size and spacing and etc.

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