[Cryptography] Photojournalists & filmmakers want cameras, to be encrypted

[Kent Borg]

Two thoughts:

  1. Be careful about demanding for robust "authenticity" features, they 
are in conflict with anonymity and otherwise can document too much. 
Sometimes we have something to say and we don't care if we can prove the 
picture is "authentic" via a digital trail, don't force an indelible 
provenance and sequence on every photo.

  2. XKCD #538 is a distraction. Being caught with an encrypted mobile 
phone isn't incriminating, it is common. If encrypted cameras were the 
norm, same thing. Let the owners of the cameras have the choice of how 
to deal with this, don't say they can't handle it. There are journalists 
and citizen journalists dying everyday over these issues, some would die 
before revealing a source (and then being killed anyway), many of the 
ones who are still alive know a lot about operational security, we 
shouldn't second guess them. They might mumble protests before 
decrypting the SD card in the camera, while keeping the sensitive card 
in their mumbling mouths.  (See item #1.)

-kb