From: Julien Nebbout (julien@paranormal.se)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 02:35:13 MDT
I doubt that this "new" perspective really is new to a lot of people.
Surveillance tapes have allways been shown with the best of the owner in
mind. Now, instead of simply _not_ showing the tape when they have
nothing on you, they can simply falsify it. Not a huge difference in praxis.
However, this could be an unexpected allied in the struggle against a
police state/big brother dystopia. (THX1138 anyone?) It might change
video surveillance back into simple motiondetection or similar, thus
crippling one of the most intrusive fashions in modern time.
....I really should get a signature.
Violet Beck wrote:
> That's extremely comforting.
>
> It also means that we're going to have to look at a whole new
> perspective of...well...everything.
>
>
>> From: "rhinoceros" <rhinoceros@freemail.gr>
>> Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>> To: virus@lucifer.com
>> Subject: virus: They can put words in our mouths
>> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:29:05 -0600
>>
>> At MIT, they can put words in our mouths
>> From: The Boston Globe
>> By: Gareth Cook, Globe Staff, 5/15/2002
>>
>> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouths+.shtml
>>
>>
>>
>> CAMBRIDGE - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> have created the first realistic videos of people saying things they
>> never said - a scientific leap that raises unsettling questions about
>> falsifying the moving image.
>>
>> In one demonstration, the researchers taped a woman speaking into a
>> camera, and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed
>> her speaking entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to a
>> song in Japanese, a language she does not speak. The results were
>> enough to fool viewers consistently, the researchers report.
>>
>> The technique's inventors say it could be used in video games and
>> movie special effects, perhaps reanimating Marilyn Monroe or other
>> dead film stars with new lines. It could also improve dubbed movies,
>> a lucrative global industry.
>>
>> But scientists warn the technology will also provide a powerful new
>> tool for fraud and propaganda - and will eventually cast doubt on
>> everything from video surveillance to presidential addresses.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>> ----
>> This message was posted by rhinoceros to the Virus 2002 board on
>> Church of Virus BBS.
>> <http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=51;action=display;threadid=25495>
>>
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