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The Hacker Factor Blog: C2PA and Authentication Updates hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... C2PA won't stop fake IDs, BBC made their bad example worse, Microsoft's validation service is offline, and Truepic's gives bad results. But good news: UMBC is formally evaluating C2PA, SEAL, and related tech.

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The Hacker Factor Blog: Safety in Numbers hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... Simple tips to stay safe online when attending a protest.

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The Hacker Factor Blog: Sign Here hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... Don't trust signatures in PDF files. They are too easy to forge and alter.

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The Hacker Factor Blog: Crashing Arizona's C2PA Pilot hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... The Arizona Secretary of State released a pilot program that demonstrates C2PA signing. Every example demonstrates how C2PA does NOT work.

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🧪 #StandForScience

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Happy Superb Owl day.

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The Hacker Factor Blog: ShmooCon and C2PA Forgeries www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... At ShmooCon, Microsoft presented on C2PA but didn't address any of the problems. To demonstrate the ineffectiveness of C2PA, I walk through step-by-step how to create an authenticated forgery.

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The Old Western "The Garamond brothers are back and they're going after the Courier," declared Arielle. "Don't worry," Roman replied. "The New Times reported that there's a new Serif in town."

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The Hacker Factor Blog: Signed and SEALed hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... SEAL can now digitally sign over two dozen different common file formats, including images, audio, video, and documents.

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I keep hearing the lots of people are moving to Bluesky, but are people actually using it?

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Adobe's study about the Adobe sponsored solution found that Adobe's users demand Adobe's solution. news.adobe.com/news/news-de... It's written by Adobe's Head of Responsible Innovative Communications, who is working on Adobe's C2PA and CAI. Yup, no bias in these findings! (sarcasm emoji: 💩)

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The Hacker Factor Blog: C2PA from the Attacker's Perspective www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... I recently participated in a panel discussion about C2PA. As part of the attacker's perspective, I demonstrated how to trivially alter C2PA's cryptographically signed time stamp.

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The Hacker Factor Blog: Upcoming IPTC Conference Presentation. I'm on a panel taking about C2PA! Show up and ask questions! www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p...

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The Hacker Factor Blog: The Jitter Bug Part 2 www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... Finally figured out how to stop the random CPU crashes! (At least, I really think so this time.)

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The Hacker Factor Blog: VIDA: The Simple Life www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p... A simple, free, and decentralized solution for media authentication. (A better solution than C2PA.)

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The Hacker Factor Blog: Introducing: The Brick www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p...

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The Hacker Factor Blog: Clear The DEC www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p...

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The Hacker Factor Blog: The Great Kate Debate www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p...

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The Hacker Factor Blog: IEEE, BBC, and C2PA www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p...

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The Hacker Factor Blog: C2PA's Time Warp www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p...

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I've been following some news feeds on BlueSky. However, many of them are for paywalled content. I've started muting any news account that posts clickbait headlines that link to a paywall. (First up? Financial Times ft.com .)

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The Hacker Factor Blog: The Jitter Bug www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.p...

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