<story><title>Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)</title><url>http://dheera.net/projects/blur</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bithush</author><text>I feel this is also very relevant &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Christopher_Paul_Neil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Police took a photo with a &amp;quot;swirl&amp;quot; effect of a paedophiles face and reversed it to reveal a very usable picture. So good in fact he was found and arrested.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007)</title><url>http://dheera.net/projects/blur</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mxfh</author><text>So if something is 1337 days old it gets autoreposted? Could live with that.&lt;p&gt;Previous discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=1939607&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A bit more precise this post is even older, and was first discussed in 2007 prominently in these two places:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/comments/xaae/how_to_extract_personal_information_and_account/cxbgy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;xaae&amp;#x2F;how_to_extract_personal_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/how_to_recover.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.schneier.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;2007&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;how_to_recove...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(please refrain from responding with XKCD references, I&amp;#x27;m aware of that, just want to link to older discussions)</text></comment>