Blackbar 1.1: free to use, and you can watch the pixels burn
No trial clock, a burn you can see, one editor on macOS, Windows and Linux, and nine languages. What changed and why.
Screenshots leak more than the picture shows. These are working notes on evidence handling — what survives in a file, what a redaction has to actually do, and how to check rather than assume.
No trial clock, a burn you can see, one editor on macOS, Windows and Linux, and nine languages. What changed and why.
A translated interface changes what OCR can read, not what leaks. What detection still catches on a German or Japanese screen, and what needs a manual box.
AWS account IDs and ARNs, Azure subscription GUIDs, GCP project IDs — which console identifiers matter, and which no detector can find for you.
Prompts, scrollback, environment variables and the window title: the six places a terminal capture leaks, and the shell setup that prevents most of it.
Triagers need the mechanism, not your session token or someone else's data. What to remove before you upload, and why live values get rotated instead.
Pixelation is a deterministic transform over a tiny search space, blur leaks length and shape, and a black rectangle is an object sitting on top of text. Why each fails, and what a real redaction has to do.
What to redact, why consistent pseudonyms keep a report readable, and the two checks that catch the leaks the picture does not show.
EXIF, embedded thumbnails, cropped-away pixels in the file tail, and selectable text under your black box — four things that survive, and the one-line check for each.