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I'm wondering if the copyright and year are accurate...I recall reading something like this a few years ago, complete with pictures of sample checks.

It looks like this is the original source, but it's from 2007, not 2010. This 2007 Slashdot article links to the same URL: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/07/1352242. Maybe the current year gets auto-added by whatever CMS he's using? Either that or it's been updated.

Incidentally, while I was looking for that link, I found an implementation in the form of a Photoshop filter: http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/10/08/recovering-censored-te...

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