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Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras by solatic on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:23AM (#13177157)
> they're almost certainly ALSO in a position to extract the encryption password

Cue relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

If you asked these people "how do you prevent your server logs from being seized and manipulated by hackers?" they'd just tell you "Easy! Encrypt it with a password!" Sigh.

What they really want is an easy way to log what they shoot directly to a central, hardened server geographically located in a friendly legal jurisdiction (perhaps several such jurisdictions) with no remote edit or delete permissions, deleting their local copy once the footage has been successfully logged. Given that the only way to do this with a camera under warzone conditions is to have a wire to some kind of backpack with a satellite uplink and its own power source, the next best thing is to allow the camera to stream to a laptop acting as a proxy for that central server, not leaving a copy either on the laptop or the camera.

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