Idle thought: you can have progressive JPEGs in which coefficients for lower-frequency components are sent first and the detail is refined as more data arrives.
I'm sure you can abuse this to construct a *regressive* JPEG that looks good with the initial low-frequency data and then degrades into something terrible.
lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:
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