As someone who’s been dealing with a lot of low mood lately, it really brightens my day to hear someone express gratitude for my anonymous, unauthorized trail maintenance.
Text blurred for privacy reasons.
You used that hand saw?
Yeah. Silky Big Boy. It’s a really good saw
You dropped this 👑
you deserve it
Don’t use blurry text if you want to censor it, as it can be unblurred. Just use a solid color box.
This only applies to videos as far as I know.
Nope, it’s a general rule. See for example https://bishopfox.com/blog/unredacter-tool-never-pixelation
I would be very impressed if that blurring could be effectively uncensored.
Check this out: https://youtu.be/acKYYwcxpGk
Well, there’s Unredacted which just tries to brute force it - see this blog post. Then there’s DepixHMM which uses Hidden Markov Models and links to the research paper it’s based on.
I wonder if an entire line gets blurred with one pattern-- therefore if you know what the emojis are supposed to look like it can help figure out the blurring pattern
The example Unredacted used is 4 pixels high. The one in the screenshot seems to only be 2 pixels high.
True, this would make it harder. But… On the other hand, its not a random password but text. If you know (or guess) the language you may be able to employ other tricks like “how common is each letter?”, “which combination of letters is more common in this language?” And so on. Maybe the hidden markov model mentioned in the research paper does that (which would be one thing that Markov Models do IIRC).
Right, technically even one pixel per letter could be solvable. Different letters would mostly result in a slightly different hue. And if multiple letters have the same, it could be guessed via the neighbours and statistical frequency of each letter.
We also have the context and could specifically look for words like trees, path, thank, saw first.
Or pixelated blurs
Troll option. Replace the text with lorem Ipsum, then pixelate that.
Please don’t do unauthorized trail maintenance. You create a hell of a lot of liability and lawyers ruin everything.
We have no idea what sort of trail this is. Much of my hiking is private land, lots in park of various jurisdictions.
Is this some kind of US thing I’m to UK to understand?
Mate they’ve got too much freedom over in yankee land, you’d probably get sued for chopping up someone’s wood. Or if you hurt yourself chopping the wood up you might try and sue the wood owner because you have to pay for the doctor to fix you up.
Yes. In the UK, you would need a loicense to do trail maintenance
The biggest case of poison oak I had in the past decade was from avoiding a fallen tree. Where are these lawyers you speak of when I need them! Ha!
How? Is someone tripping over that stick any different than another stick…? Isn’t it making the space more safe
If he got hurt doing train maintenance, or someone saw him doing trail maintenance and decided to do some themselves, and they got hurt, that opens up a lot of liability
While I think your concern is a bit overblown, this sort of stuff can be dangerous.
Those concerns are over hyped from main stream media trying to promote tort reform. Very, very few people would sue a state park because they tripped over a tree branch and no one would be successful if they did.
It all sounds like an American problem because they don’t have public healthcare.
Is that a Silky?
Yeah, Silky Big Boy
I got a folding Silky saw for christmas. That thing cuts almost like a chainsaw.
Good shit! I also started carrying branch saw and an axe in my backpack sometimes when I knew there’s fallen shit on my regular trail. It’s such a good feeling thing to clear up a section of a trail after a storm
Nice work, OP!
That’s awesome! I also have a trail with some fallen branches and sticks - been thinking of taking into my own hands ⚒️
I got a folding Silky saw for christmas. That thing cuts almost like a chainsaw.
I should have bought one of those. I did some anonymous trail maintenance myself and used a hand chainsaw (chainsaw blade with a handle at each end). It was a nightmare because the chain kept getting stuck.
Good on you for doing that, I’m one of the people who would really appreciate that!
