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Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar... by Chaebixi on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:10PM (#16227214)
Both. It is an arms race, but it isn't hopeless.

Think of it this way: we have fantastic technology for forging paper documents, but we still trust them. For instance, someone forged a memo to make a former president look bad close to an election, and they were tripped up because they weren't thinking about fonts [1].

Getting a forgery right is hard, and requires a lot of attention to detail. Technology will improve to add even more details that require careful attention, and maybe some cryptographic assurances. Maybe it won't be a world where anyone can spot a forgery, but there will still be experts who can.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy

Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar... by fishcolorbrick on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:23PM (#16227293)
Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar... by icc97 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:25AM (#16230588)
Fascinating story, although it wasn't just the font, it was trying to pass off default output from 2004 Word as a 1973 typewriter. It seems all they did was run it through a copier a few times. So it was font, paragraph style, and superscript.

If you're gonna frame a presidential candidate you should try harder.

Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar... by ioquatix on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:22PM (#16227287)
People still use ink signatures for things. :/