Re:Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
by obnauticus on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:33AM
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I’ve worked on this specific problem you are describing but for other reasons.
The issue will be once someone breaks the secure enclave in the CCD, all of the video they produce will now be trustworthy. CCDs are pretty lightweight in general as most of the heavy lifting is meant to be offloaded to the ISP—so the on-die processing for the CCD is generally very lightweight and wouldn’t have buffers large enough to sign each frame. Also there is no standardized way of creating a secured MIPI connection. You can do some clever things to mitigate for this, but it is far from what I’ll call “best practice” and more along the lines of a bespoke solution.
Re:Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
by wiihack on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:31AM
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Something like thats exists already! The organisation behind it is called C2PA :) https://c2pa.org/
Re:Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
by badpun on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:19AM
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Sounds interesting! It would probably require a hardware solution though - a private key and encryption chip tightly coupled with the rest of the camera hardware, so that it cannot be reached from the outside (to extract the private key).
Re:Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
by bjornsing on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:31AM
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Security by obscurity... But maybe good enough for this use-case.
Re:Ask HN: Burnt out from big tech. What's next?
by aardvark179 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:32AM
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Such cameras already exist.
I'll grant that something like this is not a panacea - we need good solid media literacy. But I think a technical solution will help us out.