[Ssc-dev] A question from Thomson Reuters

[Bryan Nunez]

Hi Mandy,

I'm cc'ing the SSC group for their thoughts on this as well.

I'm not familiar with the iphone "replace" software, but am assuming it
does some sort of image manipulation that could affect the authenticity of
what's being depicted in the image or video.

As with any image or video, manipulation of both the visual and meta data
is possible.  What we're trying to do with InformaCam is build in a
mechanism that will essentially create a "sealed" around the image or video
file which can be mathematically checked to reveal if any tampering has
occurred between the time the file was sent and the time the recipient
"opens" the file.  What happens before the file is "sealed" is harder to
verify.

Thanks,
Bryan

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Mandy Lee <mandy.lee at int-bar.org> wrote:

>  Hi Bryan and Sam****
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> Thomas Szlukovenyi who will be joining our meeting by phone for a short
> while on 18 June, has highlighted this question below.  Mark is hoping to
> gain some cooperation from Thomson Reuters so would like us to be fully
> prepared to answer his question.****
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> Could you let us have your thoughts on this?****
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> 2. Verification is a big issue. Of course you somehow have to make ****
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> > sure that the pictures have not been altered and unfortunately there ***
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> > is no secure technological method for doing so. Even very experienced **
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> > photo editors can be fooled by the latest developments in Photoshop's **
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> > "content aware fill"  or the  Iphone's "Replace" software under ****
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> > development. Also there is the issue of copyright and is the picture ***
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> > actually showing what it says it does.  This could easily become ****
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> > politically important - some people or NGOs might want to take advantage
> of it.****
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> Many thanks****
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> Mandy****
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> Mandy Lee****
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