• Vqhm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Eh, most dashcams have metadata with GPS, timestamps, etc.

    GPS locations, time, that’s just math tho. But we could put a private key on every camera and digitally sign every photo/video to prove where it came from.

    If it gets bad enough you’ll just carry around a film camera and snap a photo of an accident to prove your dashcam was “real.”

    Official news sources, such as the AP, aren’t going to just start faking shit. So look towards media that has a reputation. Yellow journalism has always been around and always will. But one advacent in faking whatever does not mean countermeasures stop advancing.

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      1 year ago

      But we could put a private key on every camera and digitally sign every photo/video to prove where it came from.

      Unfortunately, the movie Freeze Frame is becoming increasingly relevant.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      I’m going to push back mainly on your last point. “News agencies are just going to start faking shit”

      Why not? What happened to CNN? What’s to stop anyone from buying out the news agency and steering the ship elsewhere? Obviously they wouldn’t want to be obvious about it but a little change here and there and you’d be surprised what you can convince people of.

      As a society we are incredibly susceptible to social influence and it’s only going to get easier. I can’t rely on the past to predict the future accurately when the medium is so easily changeable.