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Rephrasing and reframing: You want to prove that you did something before and after certain points of times, and you have solutions for proving that you did som
by pdevr 6y ago
Rephrasing and reframing: You want to prove that you did something before and after certain points of times, and you have solutions for proving that you did something after a certain point of time (filming current newspaper or other similar methods). So you want to prove "the other side": That is, you want to prove that you did something BEFORE a certain point of time.
Here are two low-tech solutions almost anyone can do:
1. Record yourself standing under a well-known landmark, which has a digital or analog display of time and date.
Movie theaters have displays showing time and date. Malls have them too.
2. Record yourself doing a Google search for "time now" and record the search result showing the time.
- JulianWasTaken 6y agoBoth of these seem easy to fake. Though I guess to be honest anything these days will be easy to fake for suitable definition of "easy".
- pdevr 6y agoThey are similar in accuracy to filming yourself with the current newspaper, which is what the person who asked the question accepted as a solution to "one side". The question was about the "other side", so I proposed a solution of similar accuracy.
- JulianWasTaken 6y agoI'm probably nitpicking where it doesn't belong, but certainly not the Google search one, which is trivial to intercept and redirect to something that returns whatever time you want, and wouldn't be at all detectable. What I was being pedantic about on the other one I guess was that if we include some video editing in our definition of "easy", a newspaper which you can bend and wave and make slightly annoying to edit over seems slightly more believable than a fixed time and date which even if you walk around near should be a bit easier to edit over afterwards considering it's going to be some "regular" shapes.
- pdevr 6y agoGoogle search: You can record yourself in front of time.gov page if you want to. The time constantly changes. You can move constantly while talking, so that your figure has an overlap with the time clocks. This can be "intercepted" - you can show headers and re-directions using an add-on, but the basic idea here is to use something almost anyone can do, so I am not proposing that. Video editing: So many ways of doing this. The basic idea is to show a display of "time and date" somewhere, which is difficult for you to arrange. You can record yourself standing in front of a couple of newspaper stands, showing today's newspapers. You can record yourself shouting at train passengers of multiple trains, "hey what's today's date and time?" and recording the response. There are many, many solutions accessible to the common man to prove this, with a generally acceptable level of authenticity.
- sokoloff 6y agoIt seems like faking time.gov is fairly close to trivial.
- icebraining 6y agoNo, a newspaper is impossible to fake, because you can't predict the headlines that will come out that day.