You should never trust digital media.
You should be extremely selective about what analog media you trust.
If you weren't there to see it happen yourself, all you've got to go on is somebody else's perception. Be careful who you trust.
You should be extremely selective about what analog media you trust.
If you weren't there to see it happen yourself, all you've got to go on is somebody else's perception. Be careful who you trust.
I think that we may want to consider using cryptographic signature methods as a way to mark materials as coming from the source they claim to be from. Though this is not a perfect solution.
Though I still work with analog film, though it is becoming more and more cost prohibitive everyday. Analog can just as easily be altered. If you looked at a silver gelatin print, if the printmaker was talented you probably would never be able to detect the changes to the image that were made during the printing process. Is the resulting image a fake, or is it just an artists vision?