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263 points josephcsible | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jen729w ◴[07 Dec 25 06:33 UTC] No.46179649[source]▶
How hard could it be — genuine question — for, say, Apple (Nikon, Sony,…) to embed a QR code (optionally) into an image.

QR leads you to a page, you upload image to page, hashes are compared, image-from-sensor confirmed.

Surely at this point we need provable ‘photography’ for the mass market.

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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[07 Dec 25 06:49 UTC] No.46179734[source]▶
What system would you create that prevents a camera from being pointed at a screen? Because if you can't block the analog hole, any verification scheme is trivial to bypass.
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conception ◴[07 Dec 25 15:02 UTC] No.46182166[source]▶
None but it makes it more difficult. People could “photoshop” before digital but most didn’t. Perfect is the enemy of good enough, etc.
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1. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[08 Dec 25 19:25 UTC] No.46196485[source]▶
Perhaps, but in this case I'd worry that the workaround is so easy that the only result is people trust the system more and are easier to trick while not actually raising the difficulty.