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Richard Priday

Google Pixel photo edit bug puts phones dangerously at risk — update yours now

Google Pixel 7 review

Google Pixel 7 and older Pixels have a potentially dangerous flaw hidden within their photo editing tools that, even now patched, could still allow others to reveal potentially compromising information.

The "aCropalypse" flaw, discovered by Simon Aarons and David Buchanan, allows edits made using Android's in-built Markup tool to be at least partially reversed, as the tool on the web page linked above demonstrates. 

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