Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar...
by fishcolorbrick on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:23PM
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Here's another one: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/12/microsoft-calibri-pakist...
Re:Fake celebrity porn is blowing up on Reddit, thanks to ar...
by icc97 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:25AM
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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.
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