by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:
It has long been “de-rigueur” to attempt to prank someone in a command position of some sort on the phone with a “fake call.” Historically this is not the easiest thing to pull off but it has been done with some of the funniest being perpetrated by radio hosts of various sorts.
Today this threat is much-more serious; so-called “machine learning” can now, for virtually anyone who has their voice and image out in the public where it can be harvested, used to “mimic” said person not only over audio but video as well.
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This raises extremely-serious questions when it comes to both civil and government actions: Is the person actually giving that speech or participating in that conversation? If they’re not literally standing in front of you it is no longer reasonably possible to be certain of that unless you have agreed in advance to something that only each of you would know and would use, once, to authenticate such a conversation. You then must negotiate another one in person where there is no reasonable possibility of interception because your first one has now been exposed to the public and could be re-used. In other words the only way you and anyone else can authenticate any conversation other than in person is by the use of what is called a “one-time pad”, an unbreakable form of cryptography since nobody can possibly discover (other than pulling your fingernails off) the secret.
Such a pre-arranged secret of course only works for pairs of individuals. By definition it cannot work for a group nor to authenticate a government or other similar organization. Ever.
Remember this?
Oh they’d never do this; that’s a movie, right?
Sure they wouldn’t. They never “edit” the news to lie about people, right? You mean like they didn’t place a network logo over Zimmerman’s bashed, bloody head wound when he was being led into the police station, thereby managing to convince half the nation that he shot Martin without cause? They didn’t do a good enough job that time because, if you remember, I was rapidly able to find an image documenting the damage to the back of his head. Never mind selectively editing the 911 call to claim that Zimmerman’s motivation was race, which ultimately got an NBC executive fired when the original was released and proved he was answering a direct question from the dispatcher when he identified Martin as black.
