Acropalypse Now – Computerphile

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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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer

Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at http://www.bradyharan.com

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