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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal

FOUND: Bug makes windows 11 snipping tool images recoverable after editing - You Need To See This

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If you’ve been sharing screenshots that were cropped or edited with the Snipping Tool in Windows 11, your privacy may be at risk. 

It looks like Windows’ built-in screenshot editing tools are also part of “aCropalypse” — a recently-discovered security flaw in Google Pixel’s Markup image editing tool that allows for the partial recovery of original images from cropped or edited versions. 

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