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My personal hunch is that this will end up leading to a situation in which presenters do a cryptographic handshake that works to verify and prove authenticity.
by bluejellybean 4y ago
My personal hunch is that this will end up leading to a situation in which presenters do a cryptographic handshake that works to verify and prove authenticity. This isn't a new idea, and it has some very obvious drawbacks, but I don't see much of a way around the issue. The handshake could work great for something like official news releases, but for other instances that might come up in court, say, dash cam footage of an accident, it seems to me that the legal system is going to face some serious issues as these programs progress.
- nelsondev 4y agoLooking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes. Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”
- dinosaurdynasty 4y agoDo politicians understand blockchains?
- nelsondev 4y agoRename it as “verified speech transcripts.” I don’t need to understand video codecs to watch Youtube.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoNeither do we[1], so it's sort of a mixed bag. 1. True for an overwhelming majority of the body politic.
- swader999 4y agoThat's a start! I think their video appearances should be like a car in NASCAR with permanently displayed logos superimposed from all the interests that have funded their rise.
- marak830 4y agoIt will end up back where we started, "it's not on the Blockchain so I didn't say it", while making racist remarks with friends.
- sangnoir 4y ago"We verified the validity of our source's signature and vouch for it's authenticity" - Journalist from a respected newsroom, when they choose to keep the source confidential. So it won't be better or worse than it is now: all about transitive reputation. The unspoken threat to further denials is the risk that the source may go public, or if unauthorized, doxxing the person who recorded the video (assuming signatures have nonrepudiation)
- astrange 4y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/09/05/what-even-is-verrit-the-news-source-endorsed-by-hillary-clinton/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/09...
- Breza 4y agoWhy would this require a blockchain?