Posted on 04/01/2009 9:09:50 AM PDT by JoeProBono
In 1912 scientists thought they'd discovered the elusive missing link between human and ape. Found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, a set of intriguing skull and jaw fragments were later reconstructed by the British Museum into a human-like head with an ape-like jaw.
In 1953 it turned out the find wasn't proof of anything—other than the skill of the still anonymous forger. The skull was a medieval human's. The jaw was an orangutan's. And the teeth were a chimp's.
I have a book on details to look for in photo photography. It references techniques used by the CIA and national security to determine false images circulated by the Soviets and others.
I cannot find this book on Google though because of all of the tinfoil literature attacking the CIA for faking photos.
Meanwhile Al Reuters engages in such trickery commonplace (as does the LA Times, National Geographic, and other “respected” media outlets).
I’d tell you the title of the book if I could look it up at this time...
It’s now possible to put together a fabricated image that’s all but undetectable. You’d have to get down to the individual pixel level to be able to tell, and a determined forger could throw a monkey wrench into even that. That’s when you start looking at the code generated, by the various software. We’re down to steganography now, as far as sophisticated fraud. On the flip side, steganography has been used to conceal communications, too. It’s possible to encode a message into a picture, and next to no one would have a clue.
It took me a minute, but LOL.
Bogeymen of the C02 hoax losing ground
Canada Free Press | 3/30/09 | Tim Ball
Posted on 03/30/2009 4:25:16 PM PDT by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218479/posts
No Fooling: There’s a Hoax Museum
The Kansas City Star | Tue, Mar. 31, 2009 | Edward M. Eveld
Posted on 04/02/2009 1:46:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220973/posts
Hmm, weird prosecution, eh? :’) Painting’s not horrible though.
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