Adobe will soon start attaching personally identifiable metadata to content you create in an attempt to stop the spread of "Misinformation"
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or just pirate a earlier version
Adobe is cloud based. They've been planning this sort of thing all along. It phones home every document you work on too.
There's a workaround where you can edit the system (or Adobe's?) file to fake the "phoning home" thing. I don't use Adobe but I saw some people talking about doing this as they know people who have had success doing that.
So I wouldn't know for sure if you can do that but yeah GIMP's better.
earlier versions are way better in my opinion. I've been using PS since 2002. This newer stuff sucks.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Big Tech will be put on a leash soon where it belongs.
That does not change this sort of thing. This will be a database of unique identifiers such that any file you create can be linked back to you.
Whether social media start filtering you out (making sure anything produced by you is never seen because you have had too much to think) or not is irrelevant.
They will use network analysis to identify sources of inconvenient information and distribution paths for this information so that they can disrupt production and distribution.
Methods of disruption may include filtering at a firewall or personalized invitations with door to door delivery server to camp fun fun.
THIS is why I backed the Revolution Populi (RVP) project. Our data is ours. It does not belong to these draconian tech giants. The future of data protection and sharing is blockchain encryption. No more mediary technocrats to deal with. User ---> to ---> user sharing of information; complete control over your data.
This project is run by executives from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Are you sure we can trust them?
The Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan dudes were brought in for their expertise in creating a crypto clearing house; a first of its kind endeavor that would enable the RVP social platform to operate 100% independent of outside funding, thereby securing a user's data and offering a revenue stream to those users should they choose to share their data with third parties. That these two were willing to risk their retirement years, personal money, and reputations on a project like this tells me that they are likely earnest and the real deal.
Thank you for your response.
Easy fix. Create your photoshop content, then screen shot it. Done.
until the snip, paint or other app you use to save that screen shot is included in the initiative.
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DAMN! Adobe? I used to LOVE their products. I'm guessing they are no longer the company from which I so often benefited.
Satan will destroy ANYTHING onto which he can get his filthy paws...
I use other software to create PDF files. I can print directly to a PDF file from most of my software. WordPerfect can create them directly. PaperPort is even better. With that, you can stack up images and turn them into a PDF. You can also unstack a PDF, add in or remove pages, and then stack it back up. I've never owned an Adobe product.
Thanks, Aspie! For years, I've had a sort-of 'geek wanna-be' crush on Adobe; maybe because I just wanted them to be some of the 'good-guys'. I haven't done much business with Adobe since way back in the "old days" and it's probably time to become more realistic. They probably now are not the same company, at all.
As you have indicated, there is PLENTY of great software available - much of it 'open source'. Since I'm soon going to be exploring the Linux O/S (Mint, maybe?) it may also be time for me to explore a whole new suite of desktop tools.
[sigh] Nothing wrong with new beginnings while our Nation is being reborn; with me, the big issue is "letting go" (as Bob Seager might sing: "... what to leave in; what to leave out...").
THANK YOU for your most gracious and helpful comment! Thank you for being here! GBY and your loved ones! Working together, we MAGA!
Linux Mint should be a good OS for you to start with if you're getting your feet wet in the Linux world! You can also try Ubuntu but be warned, they will track your activities and pass your info to companies so they can advertise to you. I've heard that if you use Pi Hole, it will block the tracking but I haven't done it myself as I haven't used Ubuntu for over 10 years lol.
I'm on Fedora Linux and it's a bleeding edge OS (means it gets updates almost daily that may make or break the kernel). If you want to try Red Hat equivalent OSes, you can try CentOS.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) isn't free but they have their "offsprings" --> CentOS (long term with stability and updates that comes out in wider intervals) and Fedora (bleeding edge, new upgrade every 6 months, can be unstable at times and releases updates almost daily).
Congrats on taking the step into liberating yourself from Windoze! No more bloatware! No more updates that takes half a day to complete! No more spywares!
As soon as you get on Mint, Ubuntu or whatever, install GIMP since you're a fan of Adobe. It's fucking awesome!
Dear D-M-P, I have a LONG way to go on my road to being an "honest-to-goodness code & systems computer-geek". However, it is because of the insight and graciousness and generosity of wonderful persons like yourself that I am, actually progressing. Y'all make learning FUN!
You are one of the examples for me: I want to grow enough and be enough like you that I can help someone else, just as you are helping me. When I share with someone else, I will remember you from "back in the days when I was coming up on the server-farm..." ;)
Please take good care of yourself and never change your AMAZING attitude. May Heaven Greatly bless you on your OWN road! GBY & your loved ones! THANK YOU for being here! Working/ Praying/ Sharing together, WE MAGA!
Adobe was really good for fill-in forms with blanks and checkboxes, but I can do the same thing in WordPerfect. During the previous millennium, I worked for a company that want the functionality of Adobe without spending the money, so I recreated a ton of official court forms in WordPerfect, complete with fill-in blanks and checkboxes. They worked fine. Eventually, the court system got Adobe and converted all their forms to online fillable PDFs.
I'm thinking of moving to Linux, but with a couple of virtual machines running Windows 10 and Windows XP. Some of my necessary software has no Linux counterpart, and some of my old faves only run in XP or DOS.
OpenOffice is a good replacement for Microsoft's office suite.
Thanks for the kind words. I have Asperger's and must help when I can and supply correct information. People in school thought I was a know-it-all. I wasn't really. I only raised my hand when I was certain my answer was correct. So they never heard me give an incorrect answer.
The old DOS software VEdit can directly edit binary files. You can view in ASCII or hex, perhaps other formats as well. Here is a link. I think it's a newer version of what I used in Y2K mitigation.
https://www.vedit.com/
Open Office works.
I first read the Content Authenticity Initiative as "C.I.A"....
Low tech Bypass: If you have a printer (color is best) Print your content. Take photo or scan. Then take that PDF, JPG, PNG and right click on the source file, select Properties then select the Details tab and then look to the bottom on the window and you will see Remove properties and personal information. Do so...create a copy with very little meta to be viewed. Then continue to the next meme. I do this every time I post a photo or meme already in time you'll get so used to doing that it will only take moments. Just a thought.
If this is a weapon in the info war, do you think they will make it easy for you to strip the meta data?
Currently the meta data is not designed as a surveillance tech to identify camp fun fun invitees.
Open source tools are going to be needed.
A copy of Adobe most likely requires the user to ID himself...so release the file and yes they find you as you cannot remove some data...
Now Print it.....yes some of the metadata is in your printed copy...including the MAC ID of the Printer...
Now scan the printed output with a quick low rez scanner or photo scan with your phone...this is now a new file with it's own meta data with an image that makes it hard to retrieve data from the image. Tineye will even tell the world this is the first time it's seen the file as doing this will generate a Hash sum for the file different from the original, then erase the original so it never slips into the wild.
Take that file and do as I say....as I said in my first reply...it is a very low tech bypass to get Adobe generated material out...without doxxing your self.
No rocket science and it's tools everyone already has in hand.
Well, now I know why they discontinued licensing for previous versions of their programs...
They bricked every CD a month ago.
So what? Data is data, I can prove the vaccines are harming more people then they are saving.
and you win an invitation to camp fun fun with all the other people that have had too much to think!
Don't worry, your welcoming party will pick you up at home, or work, or put a black bag over your head and throw you into the back of a mini van as you exit the grocery store.
Digital content provenance is an interesting concept. As stated, it would never fly within the industry, as fake news would all rate as 0, and barely more than that for facebook, twitter, google fact checker service, review service etc which are wrong constantly about everything.
Imagine being told 'the people making these claims are proven liars' when something is sourced by google? Or wikipedia, or msn? Talk about getting sued.
So it will likely be an inverse-trust system, masquerading as a genuine one. Anything they say is 100% trustworthy will be 100% false. But the false stuff which will be true will probably be autoblocked due to its 'false' rating. So even then its no use.
Probably be used as a mechanism to say that "this source has produced questionable information / virus infected material / etc"
The warnings will undoubtedly be worded in a way to avoid liability.
They will come up with some unique number. It doesn't matter if the number is unassociated with anything else. As time goes along, other meta data will be collected and associated with the unique number and eventually the camp fun fun invitees will be personally identifiable.
Doesn't have to be the obvious metadata that you can easily strip.
If I were evil, I'd use steganography to embed information into the file data itself.
Information is simply information - the recipient is the one who gets to decide its veracity
Misinformation = when you ignorantly state that information is in fact misinformation
DISinformation = when you DELIBERATELY MISLEAD and state that information is in fact misinformation
It's easier to keep the sheep in line when they get a warning that information is coming from an "untrusted" source.
You have to remember people rarely think for themselves and these warnings will just be another tool that will enable stop-think.
They want to know who needs to go to super fun camp and get the extra shower soap.
What is most interesting about this announcement, is the fact that they are announcing it. Adobe is, and always has been a horrible company. That's why they are a ubiquitous big tech company to begin with- only the worst of the worst get into the big club.
All of these big cyber tech companies have been tracking people in all sorts of ways for decades. There must be a reason why they are publicly announcing it now though. I wonder what they are trying to get ahead of?