Len Tyler died on March 16, 2023 of late-stage Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 82 years old. He spent the last few years at San Juan Villa in Port Townsend, where he received dedicated and …
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Seventy-five years ago, prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, that followed World War II, made history in an unexpected way. They asked the court to dim the lights and enter into the record a new form of evidence to document human rights violations: A film.
For more than an hour, horrific footage played of Nazi concentration camps, which was taken as the allies liberated them. As the light bounced from the screen and landed on the defendants, it found them bewildered. These men, once the most feared members of the Nazi regime, were reduced to stammering, tremors, and tears. The film left everyone in the court stunned.
New App Wants To Use Blockchain To Restore Trust In Online Media
KEY POINTS
Capture App aims to create photos with a unique birth certificate that can verify their source
The technique was pioneered by the Starling Framework, which used it to record accounts from Holocaust survivors
If propagated, the technology could reinforce public trust in media distributed online
A new application of blockchain verification hopes to solve one of the thorniest problems of the information age: verifying that media is from a reliable source and hasn’t been altered. A photo app called Capture App creates a unique “birth certificate” for every photo taken and stores it on a blockchain network, allowing its creator to claim ownership of the original and know if it s been copied or changed.