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Facebook's New Way to Combat Child Pornography (nytimes.com)
1 point by joeyespo on May 19, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The link includes a video explaining Microsoft's PhotoDNA. It's essentially a one-way hash of a photo. Having done some image processing work, it's interesting how simple the idea of a photo's fingerprint is.




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