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Re: Applied watermarks explained to moronic profs worldwide.
From: Mordy Ovits <movits () bloomberg com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:53:42 -0500
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 05:14 am, Dave Aitel wrote:
Which is a bizarre way to solve the problem. A watermark is defined as something hard or impossible for the human eye to see, whereas the thing you are trying to protect is exactly that which the human eye can see. A edge detection fingerprint is easy, fast, and a better solution overall.
I don't want to be in the position of defending watermarking's validity, so let me just play devil's advocate for a moment, and then drop it. <devil> Watermarks are preferred to other image recognition techniques because they have the property of being difficult to remove. </devil> Of course we know that in practice they are no such thing, but that is what they are *sold as*. They're about as successful as this vapid watermark respecting technique will be: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/08/0111228 Everyone knows that counterfeiters would never pirate an older copy of photoshop or crack the current one. That would be copyright infringement, and counterfeiters are very meticulous about that sort of thing. Mordy -- Mordy Ovits Network Security Bloomberg L.P. _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://www.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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