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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by hypfer on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:30PM (#49422237)
I don't think that that's a good idea, because it implies trust when there actually isn't any.

Being signed with something just means that whoever has that key could've done that. That might be the owner of a specific camera, but it might also be the camera manufacturer, anyone else in the supply chain, or anyone who dumped the key.

Imagine fake evidence signed with the same key as your camera uses being used in court against you. And the court believes it because it has this signature attached and those computers are very secure and all.

Exactly that will happen. Not widespread, of course, but it will.

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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by deadbabe on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:34PM (#49422302)
Imagine today where a photo is submitted as evidence and the court believes it even without signatures.
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by hypfer on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:35PM (#49422315)
Precisely. Now take that, but glue a "the machine has cryptographically proven that this is legit" to that.
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by Retr0id on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:51PM (#49422536)
Yes, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:06PM (#49438097)
It's a disaster that's already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
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