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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That and apparently a lot of time. Am I right in reading it could take hours to leak enough pixels to form an image? So to get a password the password would need to be plain text, visible on the target website, and not be moved, removed or otherwise changed for hours.