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Digital Camera Image Verification

Polo writes "While reading dpreview, I noticed that among several new products, Canon has announced a Digital Image Verification Kit to prove that an image taken by a particular camera has not been modified. It's disturbing to think about the conditions that would allow digital images to be accepted in a courtroom. I guess one defense would be to figure out how to 'verify' a photo of shark attack..."

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  1. Run around by MacFury · · Score: 5, Funny

    1.) Take picture
    2.) Photoshop picture
    3.) Print picture
    4.) Take picture of printed picture :-)

  2. Re:Not just court rooms by S.Lemmon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because, as we all know, tabloids have a unwavering commitment to the truth! :-)

  3. Re:Not just court rooms by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm willing to be that one of the first customers for this software is the tabloid newspapers/magazines.

    Time to sell you Weekly World News stock!

    I fear the days of Bat Boy and "face of satan in 'x'" are coming to an end : (

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  4. Canon in talks with Adobe by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny
    Jan 31, 2004 - "We're working on more technology that can be easily circumvented!", says Canon's Product Manager, Wayne Innass.

    "We're also trying to annoy our customers like Adobe, but that software is still in beta. We might try to license some software form Microsoft, as they seem to be the leaders in that field."

    Wayne continues, "Our R&D department has some great ideas, such as forcing the user to take every picture twice, erasing photos at random, and my personal favorite - increasing the time between pressing the shutter release and when the picture is taken!"

    "We won't stop until our product is unusable at last!"

  5. This could be a disaster to all those.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    .... celebrity pron sites.

    Pretty Natalie Portman please tell me that you really posed naked :(

  6. Re:won't work by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe the machine spits out a paper "receipt" verifing the veracity of the photo...or is it manufactured by Diebold?

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  7. The shark picture is not faked by 91degrees · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know! I was the one on the ladder. One of the scariest moments of my life, as well. Hanging from a chopper is bad enough, but having sharks take dives at you is worse.

    The separate images that the debunkers claim they're made up from are the fakes.

  8. What! by rspress · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean that was not a picture of the Olsen twins giving some guy a blow-job?