David Kriesel: Lies, damned lies and scans

Why it was recommended

There a few videos of David Kriesel explaining the bug for the curious

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What it covers

David Kriesel's FrOSCon talk on how Xerox scancopiers, due to JBIG2 compression, silently replaced digits in scanned documents. He walks through how he discovered the bug. It is for someone who already knows the basic terms and wants the next step.

Video details

Channel

Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) e.V.

Length

52 min 59 sec

Year

2015

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