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by dns_snek 812 days ago
That was an interesting rabbit hole of articles, thanks. From an earlier article: [1]

> At FotoForensics, I'm already seeing known fraud groups developing test pictures with C2PA metadata. (If C2PA was more widely adopted, I'm certain that some of these groups would deploy their forgeries right now.)

> To reiterate:

> * Without C2PA: Analysis tools can often identify forgeries, including altered metadata.

> * With C2PA: Identifying forgeries becomes much harder. You have to convince the audience that valid, verifiable, tamper-evident 'authentication and provenance' that uses a cryptographic signature, and was created with the backing of big tech companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Intel, etc., is wrong.

> Rather than eliminating or identifying fraud, C2PA enables a new type of fraud: forgeries that are authenticated by trust and associated with some of the biggest names on the tech landscape.

[1] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/1013-C...