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From: Tony Bartoletti <azb@llnl.gov>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:43:46 -0700
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Subject: [iwar] Morphing and Other Impersonations
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To c.b.r and all,
Indeed, I understand the threat which impersonation imposes. It was about
10 years ago when the cover of time magazine showed Albert Einstein dancing
with Marilyn Monroe, and the cover title was
Digital Retouching
The End of Photography as Evidence of Anything
I recall being chilled to the bone, realizing just what this meant.
These kinds of change threaten much, but most of all they threaten our
previous assumptions about the nature of channels we can trust. If
technology undermines those channels, we can either try to curtail that
technology (unlikely in my estimation) or we can learn to adapt to new
channels, or more specifically, develop communication regimes that employ
"k of n" channels.
When we learn that we may not be able to trust any single TV or radio
channel, or any particular newspaper photo or article, we must develop the
habit of subscribing to many different "channels", too many for an attacker
to subvert all at once. This habit must become engrained in our way of
viewing the world.
Such a "multi-channel" regime serves to thwart the attacker, but is
unpopular both for its difficulty to exercise (most folks have their
"favorite channel" and that's it), and for the fact that it threaten's a
government's ability to control even the views provided domestically.
Perhaps entirely new ways of obtaining and distributing "news" will evolve.
The fact remains: If someone can subvert that which is considered "me"
(fingerprints, retina, whatever else) then I have no choice but to "revoke"
these by making them ever more easily accessible, and work toward
developing a more dynamic sense of "me" that does not stand still.
(By the way, good examples of the threat of impersonation!)
___tony___
Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov>
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900
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