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		Wingman4l7 on March 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering truncated PNGs Just because making something that enables novice-computer-user bad actors is trivial, does not somehow justify it being ethical to do so. What if we just... thought twice about making it this easy?

seba_dos1 on March 20, 2023 [–]

Since bad actors were likely going to provide such tool really soon anyway, providing it along with the announcement for potential victims to check their files wasn't probably a bad idea.

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