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chancy
5th July 2015, 04:20
Hello Everyone:
FInally a way ( software) to check if a photo is a fake without having to guess.
chancy

Link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/verifeyed-czech-tech-startup-detects-fake-and-manipulated-images-2015-7?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BOOKMARKS-psbtoshare+%28BOOKMARKS+-+PSBtoShare%29&ref=yfp

Article:
There's an algorithm that can see whether a photo has been faked
Lucy England

Jul. 2, 2015, 10:07 AM

Palin bikini manipulated photoVerifeyedThis fake picture of Sarah Palin went viral in 2008, just a few days after Sen. John McCain of Arizona picked her as his Republican running mate.

History is full of manipulated images. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong all were known to cut former allies out of historical photos after a disagreement. Even Winston Churchill wasn't above tampering with photographs when it suited him.

Back then, you needed special technical equipment and time-consuming darkroom techniques to manipulate an image. But since photos went digital, it has become a lot easier to modify them, and much harder to tell when an image has been tampered with.

But a Czech startup has created a product that can do just that, and banks and insurance companies are using it to detect fraud.

Carmody
5th July 2015, 13:33
Now apply it to the pictures of this kid who is charged with killings in this church. The images are out there..

ghostrider
5th July 2015, 14:54
there is a program in IPhone photos that allows the FBI to know the exact location of where the photo was taken ...

Matt P
5th July 2015, 14:58
Now apply it to the pictures of this kid who is charged with killings in this church. The images are out there..

I was thinking along the same lines. I want to see it applied to JFK photos, ufo photos, 9/11 photos, NASA photos, etc, etc. It unfortunately figures this technology would be in the hands of the corporations, to protect their profits. I wonder if you could crowd fund and hire this company privately to look at some of these more important photos and events?

Matt

Finefeather
6th July 2015, 12:14
This is not new... there are many ways to do this.
If you search "see if an image is photoshopped" in google you will find quite a lot.
I have used some of these quite successfully in the past.