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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

They probably have a machine that trawls the internet for mentions of itself, then extracts the IP of whoever posted them, builds a profile on their entire web activity, links it to all the personally identifiable information that can be found on them online, then hacks into their devices and starts recording them through their own camera, mic, wifi, etc., and possibly mails them a brand new pager with custom modifications.

So yeah, can’t really blame the OOP for censoring the acronym…

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marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I doubt censoring stops it, though.

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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My same response to the other comments applies here too:
  
  Scanning every jpeg on the internet with OCR would require far more compute than simply doing a regex for plaintext.
  
  Also that white line can really fuck with most lightweight OCRs
  
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Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah but even google lens can understand what’s written, imagine if their tech couldn’t lmao

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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Scanning every jpeg on the internet with OCR would require far more compute than simply doing a regex for plaintext.
  
  Also that white line can really fuck with most lightweight OCRs
  
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  - Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah but we are following their theory so i guess we just ignore that for now (I know it’s stupid and would take so much processing power)
    
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    wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I mean maybe they do have enough compute to run OCR with character-correction on every image format file on the internet. If we’re just speculating then we might as well speculate about that.
    
    But like, seatbelts don’t prevent every death. We still wear them though, because the reduction of risk is still significant.
    
    The fact is, catching an acronym appearing in images requires a much larger funnel than catching it in plaintext. And catching it with a white line through it on those images requires a larger funnel than without.
    
    It reduces the attack surface. Maybe there’s still an attack surface, but if it’s much smaller then it’s still worth it.
    
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LostCarcosan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sure, but drawing a thin white line across a jpeg wouldn’t stop that

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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ll just copy/paste my reply to a different comment:
  
  Scanning every jpeg on the internet with OCR would require far more compute than simply doing a regex for plaintext.
  
  Also that white line can really fuck with most lightweight OCRs
  
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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

extracts the IP of whoever posted them

Yeah, it just ‘extracts’ the IP from the username.

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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I didn’t say they extract it from the username…
  
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