Operation ViCo: InterPol hunts for Gay Pedophile

Interpol is making a public worldwide request for assistance in identifying a man photographed sexually abusing children in a series of images posted on the Internet, the first time the organization has made such an appeal.

Although the original photographs had been digitally altered by him or his accomplices to disguise his face, specialists from the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) in Germany working with INTERPOL’s Trafficking in Human Beings unit have been able to produce an identifiable picture.

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So much for swirl blurs eh?

I disagree with the following statement:

But the decision to unmask him is not without risk: Tipping criminals off to the techniques that police have at their disposal could also prompt them to better hide their identities.

Please. Such a method already exists. It's called blacking out the photo. Can't reconstruct what's not already there. Ah well, the naivete

Jam it back in, in the dark.