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Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by Houshalter on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:03PM (#16004813)
Even when people do get clear video, people just accuse it of being a drone or CGI. Video evidence means shit in 2017.
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Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by bufferoverflow on Monday December 25, 2017 @01:37PM (#16005184)
That's not entirely true. Cameras are starting to introduce video signing. At least there's a chance to prove the source was filmed with camera X, if its public key is known. It would be cool if camera manufacturers had a public API for that too.

Example:

http://www.urbanalarm.com/knowledge-base/2016/digital-chain-...

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Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by runeks on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @03:34PM (#16010841)
> At least there's a chance to prove the source was filmed with camera X, if its public key is known.

To be fair, the only thing that can be proven is that it was either filmed with that camera, or someone has extracted the private key from the device (or just tricked the signing chip to sign a custom data packet).

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Re:UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former He... by nerflad on Monday December 25, 2017 @07:22PM (#16006341)
What a great idea.
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