EFF cracks Secret Service code
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It bothers me that honest citizens have to pay extra to have crud like this put in our consumer electronic equipment. In this case, it degrades the quality of our photos. To what extent I am not sure. I'm sure the government scientists picked the color least likely to be noticed. (yellow) But those pixels have to degrade the image, and must replace some pixels that would otherwise be there.
People go to the trouble of compressing images with lossless computer technology (data compression) only to have it thwarted by something like this.
Who watches the watchers?
It bothers me that honest citizens have to pay extra to have crud like this put in our consumer electronic equipment. In this case, it degrades the quality of our photos. To what extent I am not sure. I'm sure the government scientists picked the color least likely to be noticed. (yellow) But those pixels have to degrade the image, and must replace some pixels that would otherwise be there.
People go to the trouble of compressing images with lossless computer technology (data compression) only to have it thwarted by something like this.
Who watches the watchers?
posted by Deep Hal at 1:53:00 AM
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