No one is contesting the fact that their identity needs to be protected the only reason I was miffed was because in this thread of 150+ pages, this same issue has been flagged thrice by different people. The first one was
@abingdonboy I think. At that time itself we had gone through the whole range of options and come to the conclusion that even if we blur the image, some other media house will have already shared the original one already so the blurring becomes redundant. The fact is that once something is released on the internet, it is difficult to censor it, which is why it is the responsibility of the one who clicks those photos to ensure their safety. If the army can't maintain basic digital discipline themselves, how are they going to prevent foreign intel agencies from siphoning other data from them? We can't take the blame for everything. This is the digital age, they should act more responsible. We are doing our bit but if the army itself is callously releasing images on the open web, there is no amount of civilian blurring that can undo that error.
There is no need for forum members to bring up the same issue over and over again to put others in a guilt trap. Check the photo again, neither his face is visible nor his name plate is visible nor his unit name is mentioned. It's getting a bit annoying to read the same self-righteous comments below every post, no one here is a small kid; Everyone understands their responsibility.
I mean, come on man, the title of the thread says 'Indian special forces' what did you expect? It's going to have photos of Indian special forces. By your logic we should shut down the whole thread then. If a photo is available on the internet, one assumes that it has been released by the original owner after due diligence. This thread is just an archive of such pictures which were available in the public domain, we didn't climb the walls of army installations to click these pictures.