We aren’t talking about current cameras. We are talking about the proposed plan to make cameras that do cryptographically sign the images they take.

Here’s the link from the start of the thread:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/google-seeks-authenticity-in-the-age-of-ai-with-new-content-labeling-system

This system is specifically mentioned in the original post: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-image-labels-ai-edited-38082.html when they say “C2PA”.

It’s not that simple. It’s not just a “this is or isn’t AI” boolean in the metadata. Hash the image, then sign the hash with digital signature key. The signature will be invalid if the image has been tampered with, and you can’t make a new signature without the signing key.

Once the image is signed, you can’t tamper with it and get away with it.

The vulnerability is, how do you ensure an image isn’t faked before it gets to the signature part? On some level, I think this is a fundamentally unsolvable problem. But there may be ways to make it practically impossible to fake, at least for the average user without highly advanced resources.

Take a high-quality AI image, add some noise, blur, and compress it a few times.

Or, even better, print it and take a picture of the print out, making sure your photo of the photo is blurry enough to hide the details that would give it away.

Even if you assume the images you care about have this metadata, all it takes is a hacked camera (which could be as simple as carefully taking a photo of your AI-generated image) to fake authenticity.

And the vast majority of images you see online are heavily compressed so it’s not 6MB+ per image for the digitally signed raw images.

lol your VPN company is going to kick you the instant you turn on LOIC through them. Your packets wont even get to the target site because you are basically attacking your own VPN.

Counterargument to your trash idea link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis

is less about character and more about factors like social awkwardness, lack of friends, poor hygiene, unfortunate genetics, spending too much time online or gaming, etc

The struggle to form relationships comes from issues like what you mentioned here, which are mostly things that are a part of your character. The incel logic is circular.

I like GoG for the idea of getting games DRM free. I buy from them when I can.

But there’s some key features of Steam GoG just can’t compete with:

• multiplayer infrastructure
• gifts and other interactions with friends

I bought BG3 on Steam instead of GoG solely to make it easier to play multiplayer with my friends.

And these features of Steam you can take advantage of even if you buy from GoG (but where would we be without Steam?)

• VR support
• controller support
• linux support (proton)

Also there’s a much better selection on Steam. But sometimes that’s a bad sign. If a game is present on GoG and Steam, that’s a good sign there isn’t a dedication to shitty DRM, even in the Steam version. If a game is present on Steam only, you have to watch out because that game might be DRM-ridden.

It’s a simple story about a guy trying to build a fire.

From my experience most sites that support YubiKey support multiple YubiKeys already

The attacker would need physical possession of the YubiKey, Security Key, or YubiHSM, knowledge of the accounts they want to target and specialized equipment to perform the necessary attack. Depending on the use case, the attacker may also require additional knowledge including username, PIN, account password, or authentication key.

Yeah that’s not a dealbreaker IMO

I genuinely love PlexAmp. I’m curious about the photos thing and might give it a try.

Sure but also I literally have a whole box of cables, and if/when I actually need a new cable I can buy the Amazon Basics $5 cable.

Alternatively, if you really care about having the Brand Name Cable, consider this a $20 price hike.

Seriously this is such a petty issue there are much bigger things to complain about.

When it does happen, hackers will be able to decrypt any vulnerably encrypted messages they capture now. We need to switch to post-quantum encryption well before quantum computers that can break encryption actually are built, such that any data they do actually decrypt is old enough it’s worthless.

But the real reason why Microsoft is doing this now is simply because the decision on which algorithms should be the first official standard for post-quantum encryption have just been finalized. Expect a lot of companies to be adding post-quantum encryption in the next couple years.

Sounds like you could do this to a person in a normal zoom call with no headset.

At least be accurate.

The “Pro” model iPhone has a lot of the features you are calling out the non-pro one for not having. Also no non-proprietary lossless audio streaming would be more accurate.

https://xkcd.com/538/

Meanwhile tv manufacturers are working on AI to sneak in more advertising.

My parents bought a TOS DVD set. They watched it originally when it was airing.

Almost everything about it needs to be optional because sometimes USB is used to charge some cheap battery powered thing and sometimes it’s used to make a backup of a harddrive and sometimes it’s charging my laptop with enough power for it to be rendering video but still have a net charge increase to the battery while also providing Ethernet, video output, and keyboard/mouse input over the same one port.

EDIT to make it more clear why the variability of USB standards is what it is, compare a modern laptop to one from 10 years ago.

The older laptop has:

• for video, an HDMI port (or the less common mini HDMI port), and perhaps a mini DP port
• an Ethernet port
• a charging plug
• possibly some FireWire ports (may or may not be the same as the mini DP port)
• USB A ports for keyboard/mouse and other random devices

The newer laptop has:

• USBC ports that can do all of the above

The perhiperals, however, don’t support all of the features. They only support the features they actually use. As long as the laptop supports all of the optional features, you don’t need to worry about it.

The is especially helpful for less technical users who may not want to know what the difference between HDMI and DisplayPort is. With a fully USBC based laptop and USBC perhipals you can just plug it in and it will work.

Of course this is all dependent on the laptop implementing all of the extra features, which is still only really true of more expensive laptops.