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Clearly forged video footage was submitted as evidence recently regarding an international crime investigation. The forgery was detected because it not smoothly done. But that is changing. So while the countries involved might seem out of the way, recent news about algorithm-enhanced falsified video footage and the social and legal repercussions of realistic but completely fabricated videos make this kind of a warning shot for the admissibility of recordings in general.
Regarding the particular case in question and the forged video, YLE reports:
Aliganyira said that local police were using doctored footage which contained "insertions, removal of images, creating someone to look like [the victim] yet it wasn't him."
Earlier, The Daily Monitor had reported on the footage.
The Internal Security Organisation (ISO) on Tuesday said the footage that is currently in the hands of security and intelligence agencies on the death of the Finnish national who died at Pearl of Hotel on February 6, in Kampala was manipulated.
Already, realistic voice forgery can be done affordably. Soon video capabilities will be realistic enough to cause real difficulties. Then investigations will depend even more so on advanced forensics, if audio and video are even still admissible. Realistic forgeries also allow real snakes to stir up denials and long delays when real evidence is produced by asserting that it is "fake news".
Sources :
Fake video? New twist in case of Finnish businessman's death in Uganda. .
CCTV footage of Kampala hotel where Finnish businessman died was doctored, says ISO. Daily Monitor.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by cocaine overdose on Saturday March 10 2018, @01:01PM (11 children)
A child's wish for the ultimate porn experience, corrupted by the adults for foolish aims! Finally, the courts will treat video evidence as less objective (as if it ever was!). If only this technology was here sooner, Trayvon could've kept his skittles.
As a public service announcement, remember to download yourself a copy of Deep Fakes and load it up on a VPS with a Nvidia card. Then multiply and flourish! The time is now, make video so useless for anything truthful, that no one would dare use it again for "news" or "justice." Make it prolific, otherwise governments will get there first and create the ultimate propaganda! No longer does China need to force their indentured foreign captives to exclaim on national TV: "Yes, I am good. I do not wish my country to come find me." Now, they can rough him up as much as they wish, and just send in a double for the voice, and overlay the captive's face on his face!
If anyone knows anything about porting CUDA software to other cards, please let me know. I've had no luck with looking through Nvidia emulators.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday March 10 2018, @01:57PM (1 child)
More and more, I'm believing less and less. Sooo much can be faked now.
But it's hard to convince the old folks of how fucked the future is.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:15PM
Even in murder trials, computer simulations or re-enactments are not shown; jurors might arrive at a decision on something visualized "from a computer, so it must be right." Same difference with almost all video (the exception being police officer body-cams, which they switch off anyway when the money shot comes)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday March 10 2018, @02:30PM (6 children)
At least one of those words does not mean what you think it means.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:25PM (5 children)
I've already been unlawfully flagged in the XKillLeaderboards, I'm going down innuendos a blazing.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:20PM (4 children)
There's a leaderboard for xkill? [wikipedia.org]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:27PM (3 children)
Xkill is an xkeyscore database distributed by the No Security Allowed system that flags the citizen identification hash for forceful termination from his connection to life, thus "killing" the citizen. When run with no government-disobedience evidence, the program sends out a special message (skull and crossbones) to notify all members of the "hit."
(Score: 3, Touché) by captain normal on Saturday March 10 2018, @06:46PM (1 child)
You really need to get outside more.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Saturday March 10 2018, @07:35PM
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 10 2018, @10:05PM
I don't see that one in the Samsung App Store. Is it only for Apple?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @08:52PM (1 child)
For a platform which can then turn around and generate either OpenCL or CUDA code off the 'CUDA subset' it supports.
Here it is: https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP [github.com]
You can also search for 'AMD CUDA Porting'.
(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Saturday March 10 2018, @09:46PM