Comment by nvme0n1p1

7 hours ago

Yeah, such systems have been tried (and been hacked) for decades now.

https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/428.html

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2011/04/nikon-image-authenticatio...

You don't even have to travel to the location, you can just spoof GPS. And of course that will only be needed until some eastern european kid gets bored one weekend and the signing keys magically appear on pastebin.

It's funny to see Apple fall into this same trap.

To be fair Apple of all companies have the best shot at pulling it off. They've been perfecting their hardware security for years for other reasons and this is just another way to take advantage of that work. But yes, if someone breaks it then the trust is gone and it casts doubt on all of the photos that were ever captured using the broken system.