faust

I do want to write more about why we are building roc.camera

but holy moly this chart

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, http://roc.camera, http://july.rocks https://flyingperfect.substack.com

the camera seems like a cool idea, but it seems like it's inevitably just another technical arms race if the idea is successful, which then undermines it's entire point of existing

at a basic level, anyone can just take a picture of a high quality physical printout in a light box without tampering to make a photo that appears real and is verified real by your system

on a more complex level, i also don't see how you could prevent hardware tampering because at some level you can always just feed false electrical signals to spoof sensor data and if well resourced actors (e.g. state sponsored disinformation teams) want to do it they can throw entire engineering teams at spoofing it 

it seems like a false sense of security that would privilege intentional disinfo campaigns over generic slop, which might end up worse than a social norm of simply not trusting anything online (which we had early on, and will probably return to)