Comment by OneMorePerson

Right, using stenography to encode some parity bits into an image so that lost information can be reconstructed seems like an obvious approach - all sorts of approaches you could use, akin to FEC. Haven't looked at your site yet, will be interested to see what you've built :)

Edit: I checked it out, nice, I like the lower res stenography approach, can work very nicely with good upscaling filters - gave it a star :)

>Let's crop it anyway

That is not cropping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cropping_(image)

>Cropping is the removal of unwanted _outer_ areas from a photographic or illustrated image.

I remember noticing that a teacher in high school had used white-out to hide the marks for the correct multiple choice answer on final exam practice questions before copying them. Then she literally cut-and-pasted questions from the practice questions for the final. I did mediocre on the essay, but got the highest score in the class on the multiple choice questions, because I could see little black dots where the white out was used.

It's not that you can unredact them from scratch (you could never get the blue circle back from this software). It's that you can tell which of the redacted images is which of the origin images. Investigative teams often find themselves in a situation where they have all four images, but need to work out which redacted files are which of the origins. Take for example, where headed paper is otherwise entirely redacted.

So with this technique, you can definitively say "Redacted-file-A is definitely a redacted version of Origin-file-A". Super useful for identifying forgeries in a stack of otherwise legitimate files.

Also good for for saying "the date on origin-file-B is 1993, and the file you've presented as evidence is provable as origin-file-b, so you definitely know of [whatever event] in 1993".

PDF has something called an "info dictionary", which most mainstream PDF-writing software will fill out with various bits of info that you might not want known.

Image files usually have substantially less metadata by default, unless it's one taken by a camera.

> Especially if the government is doing it.

Also if doing it right means more work?

I'm convinced slavery will be reintroduced before 2028

Reintroduce witch burning.

Reintroduce death penalties on public squares.

Taking Greenland and Venezuela is given, as they took most of Latin America already. Just the new Mexican president looks like the next thorn in their eyes. Too competent, too social, too anti-corruption.

Support for NATO within the US is Isreal-lite for different demographics. Pouring resources into it isn't without downsides.

>Start openly supporting Russia

Already done.

Trump is a born banana Republic dictator...

They effectively already left NATO and openly support Russia already. ICC members are already under fire and some had their microsoft account banned by Trump. Trump will invade Greenland and Canada first. China is less of an priority.

If we survive long enough I do believe historians will look back on this period and state as a matter of fact, rape and child abuse were completely acceptable, because it seems it’s totally fine with our elected leaders. If these leaders were democratically elected there is only one conclusion to draw from it…

Good Soldier Svejk working at the FBI decided to follow an illegal order as badly as possible.

They seem to be ahead of schedule abolishing a working democracy before the midterms.