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Is this the scandal to which you are referring? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202
by unreal6 2mo ago
Is this the scandal to which you are referring?
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23588202
- 21asdffdsa12 2mo agoYes, several national archives where affected on all settings. If a institution scanned and archived documents with these- these documents are - in theory challenge-able in court- within reason..
- mmh0000 2mo agoYes, that is what they're referring to. The technical details behind it are kind of cool. It's a "bug" of the JBIG2 compression algorithm. See 1, 2 [1] https://community.apryse.com/t/jbig2-compression-issue/1814 https://community.apryse.com/t/jbig2-compression-issue/1814 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Character_substitution_errors_in_scanned_documents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Character_substitution_e...
- xattt 2mo agoAll I see is 1, 1
- arthurmorgan 2mo agoThere‘s also a great conference talk [0] on this, with an english translation [1]. [0]: https://youtu.be/7FeqF1-Z1g0 https://youtu.be/7FeqF1-Z1g0 [1]: https://youtu.be/zXXmhxbQ-hk https://youtu.be/zXXmhxbQ-hk