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Re:South Park creators have new political satire series with... by ip26 on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:27AM (#24969817)
Trust. If the root signatory is CNN, you decide whether you trust CNN not to do that.

Not really any different from other encryption. Your bank could be defrauding you on the back end despite the verified https session. But you trust they aren't.

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Re:South Park creators have new political satire series with... by filleokus on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:34AM (#24969908)
Why do we need to sign the video then? Isn't it enough for me to ensure that I have a secure TLS connection to https://cnn.com? Maybe for external platforms? But then the challenge is just proving that https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/ is controlled by CNN. Much simpler than involving the cameras.
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Re:South Park creators have new political satire series with... by ip26 on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:00PM (#24972481)
The hope would be that if video clips were verifiable, they would be widely expected to be verified, such that when someone links to "old clip of Senator says outlandish thing", you habitually check to see if it's verified- no matter who or what is re-sharing it.
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