{"id":15535,"date":"2008-02-23T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/of-eyeballs-iholes.html"},"modified":"2008-02-23T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T15:39:18","slug":"of_eyeballs_iholes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/23\/of_eyeballs_iholes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Eyeballs &amp; iHoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Canon is developing an  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographybay.com\/2008\/02\/09\/canon-iris-registration-watermark\/\">Iris Registration Mode<\/a> that will enable photographers to use their eyeballs to form a kind of digital fingerprint for their images.&#160; Hmm&#8230; the tech sounds cool (well, provided it works better than the fingerprint scanner on my ThinkPad), but I&#8217;m not sure how it helps secure photographers&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n<p>What people want&#8211;and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/06\/secure_metadata.html\">can&#8217;t have<\/a>, as I&#8217;ve noted previously&#8211;is the ability to embed copyright data in images that are both easily readable <em>and<\/em> secure.&#160; Iris scanning doesn&#8217;t address the fact that if you can edit the pixels of an image, you can get around copyright data in the image (through copy and paste to a new file, if nothing else).&#160; And for all the talk of wanting secure metadata, I don&#8217;t see much use of the Digimarc technology that&#8217;s been bundled in Photoshop for ~10 years (allowing copyright to be subtly encoded into the pixels themselves), nor do I hear of many photographers passing around their images as secure PDFs (which offer 128-bit encryption, among other things).&#160; So, unless I&#8217;m missing something (and please shout out some enlightenment if so), iris scanning doesn&#8217;t seem to change the game too much, at least as regards downstream image protection.&#160; [Via Steve Weiss]<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter eye-related note, check out Scot Hampton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scothampton.com\/ihole.html\">iHole<\/a>&#8211;the camera made from an iPhone box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Canon is developing an Iris Registration Mode that will enable photographers to use their eyeballs to form a kind of digital fingerprint for their images.&#160; Hmm&#8230; the tech sounds cool (well, provided it works better than the fingerprint scanner on my ThinkPad), but I&#8217;m not sure how it helps secure photographers&#8217; rights. What people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}