YouTube (finally) put some profanity censoring in their text comment system after years of angry complaints from many, many users of the system. The moment this went into effect there were people right on top of this: Note the second comment above. Let it not be said that all YouTube "community members" are dumb. If you still want to see the...

On YouTube there are more than a few prominent video-makers there that have run into the problem of having videos pulled (or accounts outright banned) due to them not being family friendly. Personally I think the term family friendly is fairly easy to figure out, however when it comes to YouTube the lines are blurred as it appears to be dependent on whether the...

Today’s post is more or less just an example that just about anything, image protection in this case, can be ‘hacked’. In this post titled “Recovering Censored Text Using Photoshop and JavaScript“, the author has a script which recovers blurred text from an image. Quoting the article: Applying a filter like Photoshop’s...

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