So I was reading along in the Hack Liberty Privacy and Security Resources when I came across an interesting article to read:
Sounded worth my time. However, I ran across one part of in particular, that just felt, off, listed under the Video unblurring section. It told how on a mainstream German news channel (Y-Kollektiv, or funk) didn’t properly obfuscate a reporter’s email address. In the picture the article gives, it’s censored, of course. And also of course, the link to the original documentary was not given.
Although I thought: “Why are you attempting to censor what is already publicly known?” They mentioned “The mishaps have been fixed”. So I turned to the archived link just to prove the point in my head. There’s ways to get around the censorship, and a security company should know that and be transparent. The first save of the video on archive.org was year before the article was published. However, when I compared the two videos, It seemed to be redacted fine. So maybe they waited a year for disclosure, maybe they found it before archive bot did, and maybe… But the same thing happened for the other example [archived link]. Except that was two years before before the article was written.
It appears to me that something else if afoot, but I turn to others so they may critic or agree with my findings