Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years

  • halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You might want to consider a more thorough wiping of your area code next time. It’s pretty easy to figure out what it is through the scribbles

    • Xanis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Tip: Always write over things you don’t want seen in the same color they were originally written in, if you can’t completely redact it. This fucks with our brain’s ability to distinguish a pattern, which is all reading really is anyway.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        4 months ago

        or, you know, just put a black bar over it so the information is just completely gone from the image?

        scribbling over is never going to actually work, the information is still there for anyone who wants to extract it. It’s like shouting over someone instead of just getting them to shut up.