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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..."
1.) Take picture :-)
2.) Photoshop picture
3.) Print picture
4.) Take picture of printed picture
Because, as we all know, tabloids have a unwavering commitment to the truth! :-)
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 : (
You can't take the sky from me...
"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!"
You mean that was not a picture of the Olsen twins giving some guy a blow-job?