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- From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
- Subject: Re: close
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.174302.24173@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
- References: <1992Jul25.205210.4372@verifone.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:43:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.205210.4372@verifone.com>, ron_s@verifone.com writes in
- part:
- |> I am still waiting to see a color photo of an alien
- |> and/or an alien spaceship.
- Don't worry, you'll be seeing plenty in the near future.
-
- I'm afraid that it is too easy to doctor photographs now to
- make a photo very interesting. Computers can generate completely
- undetectable fake photographs. Undocumented photos are now just
- the same as unauthenticated documents--not worth the paper they
- are printed on.
-
- I wouldn't accept a photograph as evidence of anything at all unless
- there was a very clear chain of evidence to show where it came from and
- how it was handled.
-
- --
- Robert E. McGrath
- Urbana Illinois
- mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
-