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Geolocation: Ramot Bet, Jerusalem 9727433 ISRAEL, 31.808472N, 35.200944E. Call for exact address!
Driving: Long term street parking is available at or near Derech HaHoresh 18, 20, 22, or 24. On the north (i.e. even numbered) side of HaHoresh, walk up the steps between the cottages until the first street.
Wife: Judy DOT Bernstein1 AT gmailbozo@example.com DOT com, +bozo@example.com972.50.751-5111: designer of Judaica and natural cosmetics
Son: Yirmiyahu + 4: astrophysicist and optics
Daughter: Naomi Sarah + 4: maternity nurse
Daughter: Carmiella + 1: cellist and music teacher
Son: Asher + 4: environmental scientist
CV: Computer Scientist: AvrahamAbeBernstein-CV.pdf
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Secure Photos: The above techniques camouflage my image from comparison with CCTV surveillance photos yet cannot stop my young granchildren from easily identifying me. Similarly anyone can easily read my distorted email watermark while almost no automated tool can "harvest" it. Admittedly there are advanced viewers who could automatically extract my email address from the QR code, but they also could have more easily extracted it by simply parsing the second line in my home page which uses the trivial textual description of my email address using the "AT" notation hack. I simply camouflaged my photo using the FOSS GIMP blurring filters (i.e. "oilify" and "clothify") while overlaying the result with my "rippled" email address watermark. The camouflaged photo provides a "kind of" two factor authentication (2FA) because if any rogue site were to post it then any skeptic could easily question it by sending me an email. BTW there are commercial de-identification (D-ID) applications which obscure photos with nearly unobservable distortion but the obscured photo would intentionally fail to pass high quality photo ID techniques such as a passport scanner. An interesting new FOSS D-ID technique would be to inject an Eurion currency watermark into a photograph, because an Eurion currency watermark would render such a photograph uncopyable by all commercial imaging software for fear that currency is being counterfeit.↩︎