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Very few people understand why a GPG signature is reliable or how to check it. Malicious actors will add a "GPG Signed" watermark to their fake videos and call it a day, and 90% of victims will believe it.
As soon as VLC adds the gpg sig feature, it's over.
No, it's not. People don't use VLC to watch misinformation videos. They see it on Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, or TikTok.
…how popular do you think VLC is among those who don’t understand cryptographic signatures?
And that will in no way be the first step on the road to VLC deciding which videos it allows you to play...
Yeah but all it takes is proving it doesn't have the right signature and you can make the Social Media corpo take every piece of media with that signature just for that alone.
What's even better is that you can attack entities that try to maliciously let people get away with misusing their look and fake being signed for failing to defend their IP, basically declaring you intend to take them to court to Public Domainify literally everything that makes them any money at all.
If billionaires were willing to allow disinformation as a service then they wouldn't have gone to war against news as a service to make it profitable to begin with.