Re: big whoops

Robert Wagner wrote:
> "There has been a semi-secret government initiative to add digital
> signatures to various digital consumer products. Photocopiers and
> digital cameras store an encrypted signature to identify the unit
> that made the video. This digitial signature is totally inique to
> each device and is more unique than a fingerprint.
>
> Today new pictures were released of prison torture at Abu Ghraib
> prison. But not just still pictures. Today video was released showing
> prisoners being tortured by Americans. Aparently Kodak film experts
> are Kodak Park in Rochester New York have compared the digital
> watermarks of the turture video and the beheading video and have
> determined that one of the cameras used in the Nick Berg beheading is
> THE SAME CAMERA that took the prison torture video."
>
> http://marc.perkel.com/

There are explanations that don't involve dark conspiracies:
1. The reporters are mistaken (or lying) about digital watermarking by image
gathering devices.
2. The same photographer was hired by both events.
3. The CIA borrowed a camera from Al-Zawhari
4. Al-Zawhari borrowed a camera from the CIA.
5. Most importantly, Occam's Razor - the events speak for themselves.

However, getting to the bottom of this conjecture is fairly easy: Go to Iraq
and start asking people if they can put you in touch with Berg's killers.
Once you find the terrorists, you can demand to inspect their camera.