How to blank out part of a picture in LR 3?

Update: I found that the clone tool can do what I want. If there is a better way though, I would be interested.
I have a picture I want to post in a public on-line forum, but there are some cars in the scene and the license plate numbers are clearly visibile. I don't know whose cars they are, but I doubt they want their license plate numbers posted in a public forum. So I would like to blank them out before posting the picture on-line.
I used the LR 3 adjustment brush with the exposure set to zero and brushed over the plate numbers. And indeed it did it did turn them black. But just to be sure they detail couldn't be recovered, I then increased the exposure for the entire picture and found that the numbers because visibile again as the overall exposure increased.
Is there a way in LR 3 to blank out these numbers in a way that no one could use a photo editing program to recover the details in the blanked out area? If it matters, the picture is a .jpg, not RAW.

Thanks. I just tried your suggestion. However, after exporting I used another editing program on the exported photo, increased the overall brightness, and could read the numbers. At normal brightness they appear blacked out, like they did at the time of exporting them from LR.
I had the brush density and flow both at 100, so I am not sure whether there are other settings I need to change to make it work as intended. It would be easier to use the brush than to use cloning. But then this is not something I do often (this is the first time, actually), so any method that works is OK. But it would be good to learn how to use the brush to do this, just for my own LR learning purposes.
Thanks again for your suggestion.

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