XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2026/2/7 21:42:9, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
      
   []   
      
   >> People have been requesting screenshots - and in response, people have   
   >> been uploading them to file/image sharing sites, and posting the URL of   
   >> the uploaded file (thus remaining within "text-only" rules) - for years,   
   >> decades I think.   
   >   
   > And, I might add, since of the million things we should know about privacy,   
   > we only know about six of them, PNRU fingerprinting becomes unreliable once   
      
   []   
      
   >   *The camera 'can' uniquely be tracked across all three postings.*   
   >   
   > As processing power and storage gets better and better, the more it will be   
   > that we're tracked by our own online activities, such as this screenshot.   
   >     
      
   "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they _aren't_ out to get   
   you" - but!   
      
   I think the vast majority of screenshots uploaded are actually screen   
   _captures_, which obviously do not have the pixel-stains of a camera   
   shot. On the whole, the only time a camera is used is in discussion of   
   BIOS and similar screens (or, occasionally, where things happen too fast   
   - though you then probably need a video camera in order to be able to   
   get the image you want; even then, screen capture can be video).   
      
   So, yes, your privacy concern _can_ be valid - but only for a small   
   fraction of screen "shots".   
      
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Who's General Failure & why's he reading my disk?   
   (Stolen from another .sig)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)