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		im3w1l on July 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (... Just be sure to get all of it. It's pretty common that people leave a few pixels. How not to do it: https://imgur.com/ZaCIY5P

dheera on July 25, 2014 [–]

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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