“Google was passing “w” to a call to parseMode(), when they should’ve been passing “wt” (the t stands for truncation).”
The Pixel’s screenshot cropper wrote the cropped image over the original and left the rest of the old file behind. Buchanan scraped his own Discord history and un-cropped an eBay order screenshot to reveal his full postal address. Android changed what “w” means without documenting it, and Google’s own app fell for it. Every cropped Pixel screenshot already shared stays leaky, patch or no patch.