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Warning: There’s an app for blurring out sensitive information in images called Obfuscate being featured on #GNOME Software right now.

Please be careful.

The default blur setting can easily be reversed.

The default should be to replace the areas with a solid colour or a pattern not derived from the underlying information.

This really should not be a featured app in its current state.

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Aral Balkan

Right, the app’s developer has agreed to change the default tool to pure colour replacement (which is secure).

While he wants to keep the blur tool also (for non-sensitive stuff/aesthetic uses), I hope that he’ll be adding a warning to it when it is first used that alerts people not to use it for sensitive information and/or that the app description reflects that.

All in all, a positive development.

And now I can go back to coding…

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Aral Balkan

Well at least he came around eventually – that’s more than you can say for some folks :) It’s also understandable that folks become defensive sometimes when you criticise their baby. That said, all I really care about is that no one is hurt by revealing sensitive information about themselves. Fingers crossed this will be a quick update.
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