Digital Digging

Instead of having to go out of your way, there's an inviting "create a fiction" button. https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran In February this year, someone manually forged a photo like this. "The Tehran Times posted it as a before-and-after of a US radar site in Qatar... AFP and BBC Verify both ran the “after” through Google’s watermark detector and got a hit, though not before it passed 950,000 views. Building it had taken six steps — screenshot Earth, open Gemini, upload, prompt, download, crop... Tonight Manama can be changed in seconds."

See also: How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran The question is: what on earth is Google doing? - https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116969

Invalid url, should be https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran

There was a very recent "bug" in Search where the site: operator stopped working for a little bit and everybody in the OSINT community had a bit of a meltdown - https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/search-alert-google-filetype-search The date operators from: to: I think have been unsupported for a while and replaced with a dropdown in the UI filetype: is a fave and has been working for as long as I can remember AROUND(number) is pretty useful too although I find that might be a bit buggy sometimes There is a good list here https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database showing how dorks can be used for pentesting and/or generally finding insecure stuff

Does this move us closer to needing registries of authentic images? (White-listing? Only a partial solution.) Google's response today, in addition to removing nano banana from Earth, was that people should just use Google's synthID(?) AI detection app, to determine if this is a blacklisted (effectively) image. Of course that's impractical because a million people could quickly receive the image .. the image would make an impression on them before detection. And, this would also mean that Google's AI detection software needs to be ran by every human for every image that they view, in order to determine if it's valid. If we go with a white listing approach then we know that we should trust the image. If we go with a blacklisting approach then we only know that we should not trust the image, which we already knew before we ran the tool.... - https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran original article is more interesting, also linked in above main article