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by whatyesaid 2030 days ago
If I pulled up the conversation on my phone and showed you the display, it's a bit more than just a fake Photoshopped screenshot.
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How so? Editing a video to do that is not any harder than photoshopping a screenshot.
It can all be faked with a lot of effort, but proving it's an effort beyond F12 is just a refresh. But if you're going to such extremes you wouldn't trust server data/logs at all either, you don't know if they've been manipulated or not. You wouldn't trust anything, so the whole thing itself doesn't matter unless you had them say it directly to you.
Of course it can all be faked. That's not the argument. The argument is that faking a screenshot is not any easier or harder then faking a video.
Or a website. Especially on the desktop, F12 many a fake website makes.