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> It's too bad humanities people tend not to use plain text that are checked into git, with hash codes and time stamps that are hard to fake. That way, she coul
by thethirdone 9y ago
> It's too bad humanities people tend not to use plain text that are checked into git, with hash codes and time stamps that are hard to fake. That way, she could have shown the various Deans that her work predated that of Dr Mao.
It is not hard to fake timestamps in git. There are many tools used to generate patterns for the Github contributions graph.
If you want to move a file back in time in git, you just have to do some rebasing and edit the commit times.
- KingMob 9y agoThis is something a blockchain is actually good for. Just submitting a hash of the work into a block proves you wrote it before a hash in a later block.
- thethirdone 9y agoDefinitely, a blockchain is just about the only way to do this without trusting a third-party. Git on a blockchain sounds like an interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has done that.