photography is just a less obvious fiction than illustration
C|Net is usually a font of turd burgulary and knob gobblery, but this article of their is really interesting, about photo (and thence opinion) manipulation. It also talks about software that is used to look more closely than humans do to find inconsistencies, and then says that the software is kept TOP SECRET WIHT TEH POLISE SO TEY CAN KEEP US SAEF, when as we all know, as soon as someone cares, they’ll just write the app. So, you know, they’ve met the minimum assclownery quota.