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The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)

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The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Still trying to get people to sign their emails lol

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, part of it is PGP is the exact opposite of streamlined and you've got to be NSA levels of paranoid to bother with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's automated in all mainstream email clients, you don't even have to think about it if a contact has it set up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

if a contact has it set up

Well, there's your problem.

The most commonly-used mail client in the world is the Gmail web client which does not support it. Uploading your PGP key to Gmail and having them store it server-side for use in a webmail client is obviously problematic from a security standpoint. Number 2 I would guess is Outlook, which appears also not to support it. For most people, I don't think they understand the value of cryptographically signing emails and going through the hassle of generating and publishing their PGP keys, especially since Windows has no built-in easy application for generating and managing such keys.

There's also the case that for most people, signing their emails provides absolutely no immediate benefit to them.

[–] captain_aggravated 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Plus that's email. What about... Literally everything else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, almost nothing has good PGP integration.

Except Git, apparently.