I redacted my username from a screen recording three times and missed it every time
Originally published on my own site . I make a desktop AI agent. I recorded a demo of it writing files, and the approval dialog showed /Users/<my-username>/Downloads/… in plain text. Blurring it out should have been a five-minute job. I checked the result by eye three times and missed a leak every time. The fix that finally worked was scanning the finished video with a machine. The conclusion…
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