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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by BeetleB on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:42PM (#49424139)
OK, but given that GIMP is a general purpose tool, what use is the signature if all of them verify it, when I can drastically change the image to whatever I want it to be?
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by Retr0id on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:50PM (#49424239)
The manifests at each step can embed a thumbnail (although this is optional, iiuc!), so looking at the thumbnail history it should be obvious that the edit was significant.
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Re:MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally gen... by BeetleB on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:13PM (#49425270)
Yeah - I totally would not support that!
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