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Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 29 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Was it really that hard to Photoshop enough to bypass mods that are not experts at photo forensic?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 53 points 10 months ago

Probably not, but it would still reduce the amount considerably.

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it takes a considerable amount of work to photoshop something written on a sheet of paper that has been crumpled up and flattened back out.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you have experience with the program it's piss easy

However most people do not have experience.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You also have to include the actual person holding something that can be substituted for the paper.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Sort of. You just need the vague correct position of the elbow/shoulder and facing the camera. You can get away with photoshopping different arms and most people wouldn't notice if you do it correctly.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

So you need a guy with such experience on your social engineering team.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's mostly about filtering the low-hanging fruit, aka the low effort trolls, repost bots, and random idiots posting revenge porn.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

As in most things. I don't have security cameras to capture video of someone breaking in. I have them so my neighbours house looks like an easier target.

[–] xor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

there's a lot of tools to verify if something was photoshopped or not... you don't need to be an expert to use them

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I tried some one day and I didn't find any that is actually easy for a noob, I remember having to check resolution, contrast, spatial frequency disruption etc. and nothing looked easy to detect without proper training.

[–] xor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

i wouldn't just go around telling people that...

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you share more? Never had to use one.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can verify the resolution changes across a video or photo. This can be overcome by setting a dpi limit to your lowest resolution item in the picture, but most people go with what looks best instead of a flat level.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

I was going to suggest using an artifact overlay to suggest all the images were shot by the same lens on the same camera