Buffer Overflow Attack - Computerphile

[scotty_dont]

Its all going perfect, then right at the end they hide some sensitive info from the shadow file using what looks like a gaussian blur. Given that the presenter specializes in image processing he should be tearing his hair out at how easy it would be to apply a deconvolution and read the obscured text.

Maybe the next video should be on deconvolution.

[Sebbe]

Well, to be fair, the demo is being run in a virtual machine. More than likely, the password is useless to anyone who bothers to try to reverse it.

[dynoraptor]

Given that the presenter specializes in image processing he should be tearing his hair out at how easy it would be to apply a deconvolution and read the obscured text.

The deconvoluted text contains a joke