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direwolf20today at 7:40 AM3 repliesview on HN

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toxiktoday at 8:02 AM

The woman herself says she never had a problem with it being famous. The actual test image is obviously not porn, either. But anything to look progressive, I guess.

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simonciontoday at 8:01 AM

> Lena is no longer used as a test image because it's porn.

The Lenna test image can be seen over the text "Click above for the original as a TIFF image." at [0]. If you consider that to be porn, then I find your opinion on what is and is not porn to be worthless.

The test image is a cropped portion of porn, but if a safe-for-work image would be porn but for what you can't see in the image, then any picture of any human ever is porn as we're all nude under our clothes.

For additional commentary (published in 1996) on the history and controversy about the image, see [1].

[0] <http://www.lenna.org/>

[1] <https://web.archive.org/web/20010414202400/http://www.nofile...>

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nice_bytetoday at 8:56 AM

Everybody knows that. The GP's reaction is what perplexes me. Are they saying the name of the story is inappropriate? I think it's very appropriate.