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From: urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Manipulation of Courtroom Evidence
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Date: 24 Feb 90 19:54:16 GMT
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In article <6237@eos.UUCP>, eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
> This is very easily done.  It has been done for years.
> You don't need a computer, in fact it is easier without one.
> If you look hard you will find a book on the Soviet doctoring of
> photographs.  I saw a copy at Printer's Inc in Mtn. View.
> But not since that time.  The quality varies.  Manipulation is
> strictly a matter of cost: how much it is worth to you and how
> much you are willing to pay.  Remember, the hand is quicker than
> the eye.  I dare say you can completely stage a scene to fool even
> 


I don;'t know who or how this thread started. But since it has, I'd
like to add some comments.
The Israelli government has used a video in which they start with
a photograph supplied by the soviets, and purporting to be the 
id. picture of one Ivan the terrible a notoriously cruel and inhuman
concentration camp guard. They then manipulate this image purporting
to age it over some forty five (45) years, to finish up looking
like the prisoner they have accused on the dock, Ivan Demjaniuk.
This video has been admitted as evidence in the trial of Mr. Demjaniuk.
In the light of what we have seen in at least one of the AMIGA
demos where a persons face has been stretched in all directions.
In the light of the current TV shaving commercial where the same
is being done with the chin of the  face on the screen. 
In the light of the common county fair crazy mirrors.
  How can this have been allowed by the Judges bench in the trial
  over the objections of the defence attorneys???
Do you think it is because the judges do not read USENET newsgroups?
Or do you think they are blinded by the mysticism of results
generated on a computer?
Or does it simply fit in with the aims and policies of the government?
  
Please all excuse this outburst of personal opinions.
I take full responsibility for the above statements and sentiments
expressed in them. This posting has not been approved by UNCECS
nor any other organization through whose channels it may reach you.
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