HAte to break ti to you, but check the news. It's happened. Im legitimately shook that the enhance meme is somewhat real now, albeit not as magical as on TV, these AI based tools are getting crazy...
I remember a Linus Tech Tips video where they sped up a part you weren't supposed to hear (about prerelease hardware). When you slowed it down with editing software, it was just an advertisement for a sponsor. 300 IQ
@@marconiandcheese7258 In video, there is probably even more information than in a static image, though it's also likely to be much harder to extract. I'm wondering if somebody is going to create a program or ai for that.
Only if you save the image in a format that preserves layer data and the black box is an overlaid layer that can be removed. It happened with court filings in pdf format years ago, too. If you export as gif, jpg or png it'll flatten to one layer.
Sometimes when they use the blackout tool on a PDF or a layered image, the black rectangles can be moved/removed/hidden, since the original info is still there.
If you’re dealing with formally classified/sensitive documents, even if you do use redact through PDF, it is not unusual to have that document printed, then re-scanned before releasing to prevent user error
same i just make a comment about that before i see your comment hahahahahaha btw i really want to see some working software that make censor hentai to uncensor....
@@henshxn first step, also, as long as there isnt too harsh of pixelation its definitely possible to use an ai to make it less pixelated, which is usually the case
Once this kid made a scratch project called "I will never make a face reveal!!" And put a black box over his face And I went into the editor and dragged it away and I saw his face... He deleted it after I told him though
@@FinnishArmy no, a proof of concept it is. Far from a working and robust example, but enough to give an idea of the final concept, which is the definition of a PoC
not quite. the ai does not actually know anything . its just gussing things . kinda like how you imagine an HD version of any picture. that sort of thing would be useless in most cases.
Oh wow, this is actually something I was wondering if it was possible for a long time. All you need is the font and font size which can be derived from surrounding text and you can eventually find a match for the pixelation, same would work for blur
I find that instead of mosaic obscures, it's simpler to cut out the region and colour the region the same as the surrounding background. I did that with a licence plate, and it worked pretty well.
Just use black rectangles and problem is solved! The vector of attack here is similar to the md5 hash brute force technique - same symbols generated same output. Good luck with something like a Bcrypt... or black rectangles! :)
I just add new text on top of my pre-existing text 2 or 3 times and then do gaussian blur. This way you can tell text was there and it looks more aesthetically pleasing than a solid color bar, but you won't ever decipher it from the image even if you could get rid of the blur.
My school teacher send me a pdf file with white rectangles over it, when reverted to word it removed those rectangles and I was able to see the results xD Is this comment rly the 3rd highest lol??
This is so cool because I have had the idea that it in theory should be possible to unblock sensor blocking of faces for years. Although that idea is a bit different. That idea is based on tracking the movement of the camera and filling in pixels based on the colour changes of the fixed blocks with the help of camera movement.
It would probably be even easier to unblur text that's gaussian blurred, all you would have to do is find pixels above a certain brightness and separate them from the rest. This would be even less safe than pixelation! ME FROM THE FUTURE: Nope, any level of gaussian blur that's strong enough to not be human readable ends up blending text so much that I can't restore it by finding pixels above a certain brightness
There are tools used to identify a font used in images, so maybe you'd get better results if you provided your own db-sequence image in the font your "victim" uses, maybe you'd get better results?
This is why i only use blackout when censoring, Since you can make out the shape ALWAYS, even way back before any of this, we can already see what a shape is supposed to be behind a pixelation, a car, a person, or etc, so it's only time text can be revealed what's behind them
Years ago they identified some sex trafficker by reversing the swirl filter on an image where he had used swirl over his face to try to hide his face. I think that was way back in 2004.
Had a project manager sent us a contract with a client to our full team so we would understand the service level agreement. He just removed the financial part where the salary of each member profit mark up etc was. however I don't quite remember but I think it was in the cloud or something like that so you could just check the revision history and see the full document.
The problem starts with different font faces, font sizes, font weights, font spacing, font colors, background colors, zoom values and the fact that each raster program uses slightly different mosaic algorithms. Basically, if you use the exact same font face, font size, font weight, font spacing, font color, background color, zoom value and mosaic algorithm as the creator of the examples, your text might get decoded. In any other case, the probability of decoding text like that is extremely low (close to 0).
I always tought it is possible even more so, if you know the font the text was originally in. the most crude way would be to just bruteforce each letter to see how it looks blurred, and match it with the picture
I thought it was old known fact. I've read articles about it at least 6 years ago. Another commonly overlooked vector of attack is recovering passwords from video using keyboard sound. (Pressing different keys produces different sounds, with enough samples, it's possible to recover the password)
With digital documents, there's absolutely no excuse for not replacing the text with [REDACTED]. For passwords-which already should never have been written-down and should be considered compromised the moment someone did-yes you need to jump through these hoops. For blacked-out bars in natural language, we've been able to figure-out what the words are since the Cold War. The length of the word that was redacted is very often enough, if you have enough other intelligence (examples of the same person writing text that isn't redacted being excellent material to work with). Codenames and passwords are about the only things that you can redact with black bars and have it still work, and like I said, the passwords are already compromised at that point.
yes that's awesome! always suspected that style of censoring especially since it uses complex colours rather than like a palette of 8 shades, gave too much info and could be deciphered. Hopefully with this tool people will be more cognisant of basic security
Mildly unrelated When getting rid of things on paper that you really don’t want there, -scribble it out vigorously -erase -scribble it out sideways -erase -repeat on both diagonals if you feel the need And photocopying it would also be helpful if you really need to (Or just use white-out)
It's just like the age old problem of getting random numbers from orderly machines and mathmatics. Or like the Enigma cipher. If something is hidden by transforming it in a specific and very orderly way, it can usually be reversed!
I always knew this will happen since I was a kid I told my self Never censor text or any thing like that Just use a black image and put it on the thing you want to censor
Before using this pixelation method, I would; 1. First scramble the word itself. 2. Use a cipher of some sort to obfuscate each character. 3. Change the color of the text and background to lower contrast. 4. Use a special font that uses a proprietary alphabet. 5. THEN I would pixelate the word. 6. And lastly, I'd shuffle the pixels. I'd also change the background of the entire document to something that's a little noisy, to further screw with the algorithm.
I always thought that this would happen someday, because it is encrypted according to a certain algorithm, it is obvious that knowing it well, you can decrypt it. But this decrypter does not work as I expected when at the age of 12 I wanted to understand the bloody password of this damn minecraft account on a random site.
With many fonts you can also guess the message using just one or two pixels from the top or bottom (especially if they are words or names), so make sure you cover the entire word even when using an opaque box.
I was worried this would happen one day... so I either made the censor with lower res, a different style of mosaic (like hex/triangle) or just black/background colour.
It's cool, but I don't really see it being any more viable than brute forcing in a sense. At a certain point it'll have to include fonts, their variations, account for compression, and all that jazz
With enough computing power, a well trained AI, and a high enough resolution photo, it might even be possible to recover anything completely blacked out by calculating what light would have landed in the black spot depending on how much light every other pixel of the camera absorbed.
I think using the non masked text to adjust font size, spacing and kerning will give better results than trying to preencode several options (with/without spacing etc)
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Sorry, I overdid it a little bit with the music this time. The next video is hopefully gonna be more subtle again music-wise.
Nah, I would go full Hans Zimmer next video.
i was about to tell you..... but ok .. hehe
@@dominicsternitzke DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAAA DAA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I liked the music!
nah fam no worries, its perfect. it didn't start bothering me even after seeing ur comment
Suddenly the enhance meme will become reality.
HAte to break ti to you, but check the news. It's happened. Im legitimately shook that the enhance meme is somewhat real now, albeit not as magical as on TV, these AI based tools are getting crazy...
@Shay Crispy that basically what upscaling pictures with AI is.
Don't forget the deepfake. Although it was a meme last year but that because it was made lazily. Imagine it could work
@@goosebyte link pls
@@nezunish-2-824
Deep fake was not a meme
Or let’s say it’s real then became a meme using actual deep fake
I remember a Linus Tech Tips video where they sped up a part you weren't supposed to hear (about prerelease hardware). When you slowed it down with editing software, it was just an advertisement for a sponsor. 300 IQ
They have pixelated his passwords when filing server videos. Not saying to find out the password, but um I'm curious
@@marconiandcheese7258 i like the way you think
@@marconiandcheese7258 thanks for the tip
What video?
@@marconiandcheese7258 In video, there is probably even more information than in a static image, though it's also likely to be much harder to extract. I'm wondering if somebody is going to create a program or ai for that.
this is why actual top secret document just black out the text.
Some can also be reversed. I don't know if it's still possible, but it woked some time ago with pictures made with GIMP.
@@zekiz774 whenever I black out words/ID I always screencap and use it instead
will never fails
Only if you save the image in a format that preserves layer data and the black box is an overlaid layer that can be removed. It happened with court filings in pdf format years ago, too.
If you export as gif, jpg or png it'll flatten to one layer.
Sometimes when they use the blackout tool on a PDF or a layered image, the black rectangles can be moved/removed/hidden, since the original info is still there.
If you’re dealing with formally classified/sensitive documents, even if you do use redact through PDF, it is not unusual to have that document printed, then re-scanned before releasing to prevent user error
And here is why I always just block things out with a solid box 😬
There will be a neural network for that, just wait and see :D
@@FreeScience well its kinda impossible
@@josh16 r/wooosh
Yes it's a joke
bri’ish
Gonna look at some japanese, "adult" material now.
There are Machine learning algorithms that “fixes” censored porn.
@@SGprooo ha, makes sense.
I'll be interested in the future of entertainment altered by/with A.I.
@@Freakazoid12345 nah just this th-cam.com/video/j4Ph02gzqmY/w-d-xo.html
There is an abandoned project called DeepCreamPy, but I have never tried it myself
@@Freakazoid12345 I've saw some stuff of overflow
Every tutorial youtuber after watching this: *PANIC*
Oh no, my video has pixelated blur...but that data isn't very important anyway
@@Nurutomo so basically: “oh no, anyway”
@@JustthesameJn oh no anyway
*THOSE TUTORIALS WITH BLURRIED PASSWORDS TO THE CRACKS BACK IN THE DAY CAN'T STOP ME NOW!!!!!*
Me skiling the video 😂😂💀
Finally, a first step for unpixelated Hentai for everyone.
same i just make a comment about that before i see your comment hahahahahaha
btw i really want to see some working software that make censor hentai to uncensor....
@@Mewmew-y4m There are that kind of software but it payed software
@@Faruq-xn4gj and i think it requr some good system spec
@@henshxn first step, also, as long as there isnt too harsh of pixelation its definitely possible to use an ai to make it less pixelated, which is usually the case
I was about to comment that
Once this kid made a scratch project called "I will never make a face reveal!!" And put a black box over his face
And I went into the editor and dragged it away and I saw his face...
He deleted it after I told him though
All he needed to do was turn it into a vector and back to combine the image and make that impossible to drag away
All he had to do was, you know, NOT DO IT IN THE PROGRAM 🤦♂️. Like just go use a photo editor
@@TheLinposterIsSus It’s the same as using the slow feature to hide your voice
Just do it in a separate application then upload it
@KanKan I mean, he was only 8
bruh
Personally, I like to blur *incorrect* passwords and imagine someone out there is spending the time to guess them.
And then it says "rickrolld"
lmao
@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ Just make the password RickRoll
Too obvious, make the fake password "dQw4w9WgXcQ"
I like it. Good way to waste an adversary's time. (Except it isn't, because we automate everything, but it'd still be funny.)
That's a "proof of concept" as far as I'm concerned.
Point being?
It’s pretty far for a “proof of concept”
@@FinnishArmy no, a proof of concept it is. Far from a working and robust example, but enough to give an idea of the final concept, which is the definition of a PoC
@@FinnishArmy It is exactly a POC, and do not dismiss the value of a POC, as a POC proves that something is possible.
I like 2 poc
WE CAN FINNALY DEPIXELATE THE FOUNTAIN TEXT IN SUPER MARIO 64!
YES LET'S DO THIS
Pls say results
L is real?.???
It probably says lorem ipsum or something
they already figured it out by blurring the same text and the same font
this is my password, can you recognize it?
password : **********
*Keylogger* can recognise as well as memorise this.
I bet it was 12345678
@@nacho821 ohh man.. 🤣
@@callmenafi3223 jaquerman😂
Let me guess, is it literally just "*******" ?
Woah so ‘Zoom and Enhance’ in movies is actually a thing and we weren’t that advanced yet!!
not quite. the ai does not actually know anything . its just gussing things . kinda like how you imagine an HD version of any picture. that sort of thing would be useless in most cases.
Hentai enthusiasts:
"Interesting"
Is that your big iron or are you just happy to see me?
Thank you for this!
First reply to a verified guy
@@timmydadog bruh
Silence, verified
@@timmydadog No one cares
Sus
comment distribution
40%: haha hentai
40%: i always wanted to do this but he did it first
20%: im going 2 use this to hack ppl on reddit hahahahahaha
BuT tHaT aMoUnTs To 120%!!!111!1
@@catgoesgaming nop
@@catgoesgaming I dont understand who youre trying to make fun of because this is definitely 100%
1%
40% video
40% video
200% video
@@arandomsupra You know it’s a joke.. right?
Oh wow, this is actually something I was wondering if it was possible for a long time. All you need is the font and font size which can be derived from surrounding text and you can eventually find a match for the pixelation, same would work for blur
Finally gonna answer baldi's last question
I find that instead of mosaic obscures, it's simpler to cut out the region and colour the region the same as the surrounding background. I did that with a licence plate, and it worked pretty well.
Or just make it black or white
and this is why taking a screenshot of the original, and using the markers or a black box, is better than anything.
Now that I know this exists.
I'm going to blur rickrolls in my tutourial videos.
Hahaha good one
if this didn’t just do text i’d be unblurring the “hidden” face reveals from this discord server
People who use blur: im in danger
Just use black rectangles and problem is solved! The vector of attack here is similar to the md5 hash brute force technique - same symbols generated same output. Good luck with something like a Bcrypt... or black rectangles! :)
This is TOTALLY not gonna get used for bad things!!!!
Rip TH-camrs password bank and ip
“So lemme censer this password and then we can jump into this game!”
People using this: I am speed
Lol
i was expecting this to use a neural network. cool that it didn't!
50 years later: *DECRYPTING MY BROWSING HISTORY*
I read "Mario from the other side"
Well at least we can now finally confirm what the star statue in Mario 64 says
the "ENHANCE" Feature of CSI and other shows are coming into reality
Been thinking about this event since I first saw blurred texts, finally someone made it!
'Hello from the other side' unpixelated looks like 'Mario from the other side'...
I just add new text on top of my pre-existing text 2 or 3 times and then do gaussian blur. This way you can tell text was there and it looks more aesthetically pleasing than a solid color bar, but you won't ever decipher it from the image even if you could get rid of the blur.
If you're going to go to that much effort, then why not just replace the text with [REDACTED]?
always thought it would have been possible like this,so cool to see someone did this
My school teacher send me a pdf file with white rectangles over it, when reverted to word it removed those rectangles and I was able to see the results xD
Is this comment rly the 3rd highest lol??
Nice!
lool
What's behind the rectangles?
Big brain
what was there
„Mario from the other side“ lol
Time to expose dream smp Server ip
but what will you do with the ip?
@@iHouqLF 😈
@@iHouqLF release it on a huge discord server full off 12 yrs old minecraft hackers and make them streamsnipe dream with a coordinated attack
@@iHouqLF ddos attack
@@iHouqLF ^
2016 “Hacking” Video with a blurred out password in the thumbnail: You can’t defeat me!
censiCLICK: I know, but they can.
*Depix*
Weebs, who look back at the bit wars meme thumbnails: yes
People who use comic sans: "We do not possess your disadvantages."
At first I saw it as "Mario from the other side" but it was actually "Hello from the other side" LMAO
Finally! I can uncensor those sites that always pop up when you search a question from your college tests.
what?
This is so cool because I have had the idea that it in theory should be possible to unblock sensor blocking of faces for years. Although that idea is a bit different. That idea is based on tracking the movement of the camera and filling in pixels based on the colour changes of the fixed blocks with the help of camera movement.
It would probably be even easier to unblur text that's gaussian blurred, all you would have to do is find pixels above a certain brightness and separate them from the rest. This would be even less safe than pixelation!
ME FROM THE FUTURE: Nope, any level of gaussian blur that's strong enough to not be human readable ends up blending text so much that I can't restore it by finding pixels above a certain brightness
Hackers: time to expose people 🤫
Editor: *Censors with black boxes*
I remember people joking about this years ago to scare people on forums. Never imagined we'd actually see it become real but it makes sense
I've seen this thumbnail a couple of times already and always thought it said 'Mario from the other side'
There are tools used to identify a font used in images, so maybe you'd get better results if you provided your own db-sequence image in the font your "victim" uses, maybe you'd get better results?
This is why i only use blackout when censoring, Since you can make out the shape ALWAYS, even way back before any of this, we can already see what a shape is supposed to be behind a pixelation, a car, a person, or etc, so it's only time text can be revealed what's behind them
Years ago they identified some sex trafficker by reversing the swirl filter on an image where he had used swirl over his face to try to hide his face. I think that was way back in 2004.
It's as if they never tried applying a second swirl effect (in the opposite direction) before. Of course it is reversible 🤦♂️
Someday we will never have to pay for the uncensored versions of our favourite TV shows
Had a project manager sent us a contract with a client to our full team so we would understand the service level agreement. He just removed the financial part where the salary of each member profit mark up etc was. however I don't quite remember but I think it was in the cloud or something like that so you could just check the revision history and see the full document.
Depix: *Exist*
The SCP Foundation: "Oh god, oh fuck"
The problem starts with different font faces, font sizes, font weights, font spacing, font colors, background colors, zoom values and the fact that each raster program uses slightly different mosaic algorithms. Basically, if you use the exact same font face, font size, font weight, font spacing, font color, background color, zoom value and mosaic algorithm as the creator of the examples, your text might get decoded. In any other case, the probability of decoding text like that is extremely low (close to 0).
Imagine censoring passwords with that instead of big black 😏 line
I always tought it is possible
even more so, if you know the font the text was originally in. the most crude way would be to just bruteforce each letter to see how it looks blurred, and match it with the picture
Can’t wait for next video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
Like why didn't someone think of this before it's so simple yet so smart
we usually movies for depicting unrealistic hacking, but looks like they were right about "Enhance......Enhance....."
This was one of my shower thoughts lol
Thank you bro. You made every tutorial creators get hacked.
Very importante these informations ! Thank tu.
TH-camrs: sensors some words
Me: lemme just unblur it
Now some japanese "animations" can be enjoyed without something in the way, if u know what I mean 😂😂
I thought it was old known fact. I've read articles about it at least 6 years ago.
Another commonly overlooked vector of attack is recovering passwords from video using keyboard sound. (Pressing different keys produces different sounds, with enough samples, it's possible to recover the password)
That's why I like to use Gaussian blur till it's a blurry mess. Buy I might want to change that to simply deleting the secret text.
This project is begging for AI and ML. Stay safe kiddies 🙏🏽😂😭
All it needs is more Mosaic pattern formulas and it'll be able to use different ones until it's more visible.
*_interesting_*
I always thought one day there will be a possibility of depixelating everything.
With digital documents, there's absolutely no excuse for not replacing the text with [REDACTED]. For passwords-which already should never have been written-down and should be considered compromised the moment someone did-yes you need to jump through these hoops. For blacked-out bars in natural language, we've been able to figure-out what the words are since the Cold War. The length of the word that was redacted is very often enough, if you have enough other intelligence (examples of the same person writing text that isn't redacted being excellent material to work with).
Codenames and passwords are about the only things that you can redact with black bars and have it still work, and like I said, the passwords are already compromised at that point.
The tutorials blurring emails that way: OH NO!
I had this idea years ago but I didn't know how to code so I was just waiting
yes that's awesome! always suspected that style of censoring especially since it uses complex colours rather than like a palette of 8 shades, gave too much info and could be deciphered. Hopefully with this tool people will be more cognisant of basic security
Mildly unrelated
When getting rid of things on paper that you really don’t want there,
-scribble it out vigorously
-erase
-scribble it out sideways
-erase
-repeat on both diagonals if you feel the need
And photocopying it would also be helpful if you really need to
(Or just use white-out)
It's just like the age old problem of getting random numbers from orderly machines and mathmatics. Or like the Enigma cipher. If something is hidden by transforming it in a specific and very orderly way, it can usually be reversed!
I always knew this will happen since I was a kid I told my self
Never censor text or any thing like that
Just use a black image and put it on the thing you want to censor
Before using this pixelation method, I would;
1. First scramble the word itself.
2. Use a cipher of some sort to obfuscate each character.
3. Change the color of the text and background to lower contrast.
4. Use a special font that uses a proprietary alphabet.
5. THEN I would pixelate the word.
6. And lastly, I'd shuffle the pixels.
I'd also change the background of the entire document to something that's a little noisy, to further screw with the algorithm.
@@wolfgangzeintl6425 Because that would be too simple and efficient. I like overengineering things.
And that's why you use paint to cross it out with black instead of fancy filters.
Mac users don't have paint
@@nowonmetube Don't they get a free generic image manipulation program?
I always thought that this would happen someday, because it is encrypted according to a certain algorithm, it is obvious that knowing it well, you can decrypt it.
But this decrypter does not work as I expected when at the age of 12 I wanted to understand the bloody password of this damn minecraft account on a random site.
SCP Foundation: *Laughs in [Redacted]*
With many fonts you can also guess the message using just one or two pixels from the top or bottom (especially if they are words or names), so make sure you cover the entire word even when using an opaque box.
It's been great that you keep on educating folks about privacy, security and cryptography. Keep up the good work.
hackers trying to hack accounts from screenshots where the password is censored with mosaic pixels with depix: *_YOU CAN'T STOP US NOW!_*
Text: Hello from the other side
What i read: MARIO FROM THE OTHER SIDE
I was worried this would happen one day... so I either made the censor with lower res, a different style of mosaic (like hex/triangle) or just black/background colour.
Black rectangle: I'm going to end this whole's man carrer.
I kind of always knew this was possible but never saw it used
Not gonna a lie thought that said
"Mario from the other side" in the thumbnail
"i always thought", "i think" and the music makes this video very engaging waw i love it
also this is actually terrifying
I'll be honest I thought it said "Mario from the other side" not "Hello" and was really confused
Now the fun begins to uncensor clips from sites.
I actually thought the "Hello" was Mario lmao.
I saw this on GitHub explore page a few days ago and thought it was an amazing project. Uses the debruijn sequence, clever.
It's cool, but I don't really see it being any more viable than brute forcing in a sense. At a certain point it'll have to include fonts, their variations, account for compression, and all that jazz
All of us realize that know we can now finally find out what the text on the statue in Mario 64 is, right..?
this is honestly scary
With enough computing power, a well trained AI, and a high enough resolution photo, it might even be possible to recover anything completely blacked out by calculating what light would have landed in the black spot depending on how much light every other pixel of the camera absorbed.
I think using the non masked text to adjust font size, spacing and kerning will give better results than trying to preencode several options (with/without spacing etc)
I'm about to look for every video with a blurred password