Oh wow, you just reminded me that this was the beginning of “all day all night all the time news”.

Pre 9/11 I don’t think it existed (I wasn’t really watching the news), but day of, as more and more information came in, they just kept updating when they had new news and reiterating what they had when there wasn’t anything new.

I remember seeing a video (from a digital camera, not a phone), probably turned into a gif, of three or four friends on Halloween.

Two were dressed as towers. One (or maybe two) were of planes.

The ones dressed as planes were running into the ones dressed as towers.

So only like a month and a half after 9/11, and anyone posting it to forums usually titled it “too soon?”

I guess but if the production company is the Office of the President of the United States then… What? Never trust anything they put out again? That helps me I guess but it doesn’t help the other two thirds of the country.

A lot of people talk about how terrible this is for privacy but personally I completely agree with OP for public videos. The leader of a country (or province/state/city/whatever) is going to give a speech?

I would like to be able to verify it’s legitimate and accurate. Because we are already seeing political AI videos of made by the opposition of a candidate saying something they didn’t actually say.

Now I actually think any videos badmouthing an opponent shouldn’t be allowed. All political videos should be on a given candidate’s platform and how that will help the people they represent, and can’t discuss the opponent at all, but that’s just not how it works right now.

I’ll also add I have no idea how that certificate chain can be validated in a way by me that the government can’t just up and change something. They control the camera. They control the root cert, I assume. They can issue new certs whenever they want. I have no way of validating the original footage was from that camera with that cert in any way that I can think of. Not to mention another poster called out any editinf software you use will need to re-sign it. But maybe there’s a way to take smaller clips from a public speech and still ensure they are signed by a given certificate the larger one was.