Researchers stumbled upon a simple but worrying bug. Cropped images from Pixel phones contained a great deal of the original image in the cropped file. Drs Steve Bagley & Mike Pound explain.
Mike's sources:
https://twitter.com/itssimontime
https://twitter.com/david3141593
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html
Proof of concept: https://acropalypse.app/
Waiting for someone to spot that I fixed my typo on the text messages illustration but didn't fix it on the original -Sean
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