And now for something weird...

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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https://news.yahoo.com/british-tv-network-facing-criticism-141413898.html

A clip of the video published by the BBC shows the fake Queen joking "there are few things more hurtful than someone telling you they prefer the company of Canadians"
Read about it... it's worrisome to me that maybe pretty soon video and photographic evidence will be practically inadmissible in a court of law. This might be a stupid question, but here it goes: Shouldn't there be a way of placing some sort of a digital signature in a media file that would demonstrate it was made in using a certified device and that it has been unaltered?
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Read about it... it's worrisome to me that maybe pretty soon video and photographic evidence will be practically inadmissible in a court of law. This might be a stupid question, but here it goes: Shouldn't there be a way of placing some sort of a digital signature in a media file that would demonstrate it was made in using a certified device and that it has been unaltered?
There is but real video clips of real events are re-encoded for various media, reprocessed with other clips for the various production method used and modified in format. It's a tricky problem for the original media authentication to survive that.
 
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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There is but real video clips of real events are re-encoded for various media, reprocessed with other clips for the various production method used and modified in format. It's a tricky problem for the original media authentication to survive that.
I thought so... and I also thought that tracing an edited or re-encoded video back to its original source might not be an easy task. A huge challenge lies ahead, IMHO...
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://apnews.com/article/us-news-...ks-manhattan-00ed4641c60828eefca1c14d57faada3

Girl Scouts rebuke Boy Scouts in escalating recruitment war
NEW YORK (AP) — The Girl Scouts are in a “highly damaging” recruitment war with the Boy Scouts after the latter opened its core services to girls, leading to marketplace confusion and some girls unwittingly joining the Boy Scouts, lawyers for the century-old Girl Scouts organization claim in papers filed in a federal court.

The competition, more conjecture than reality two years ago, has intensified as the Boy Scouts of America organization — which insists recruits pledge to be “trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous and kind” — has unfairly recruited girls lately, according to claims in legal briefs filed on behalf of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
 
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