{"id":710,"date":"2013-11-27T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ampedsoftware.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-08-01T17:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:54:16","slug":"amped-authenticate-launched-today-and-they-lived-happily-ever-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ampedsoftware.com\/2013\/11\/27\/amped-authenticate-launched-today-and-they-lived-happily-ever-after","title":{"rendered":"Amped Authenticate launched today… and they lived happily ever after"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time:<\/span> 5<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

Today I will tell you a story\u2026<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time there was a land far, far away where people used to believe in Photo. It was a land where a picture was worth a thousand words. From time to time, a bad photo editor used to tamper with Photo for politicians, generals, and celebrities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Then the age of digital came along and the Image Editing Software was available to all of the inhabitants. First, there was only One Big Bad Software<\/a>, but soon a lot of smaller Apps<\/a> came along. These were not only available on computers but also on any camera and smartphone that could easily modify, and often for free, all the Photos in the land.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It was around that time, that people lost faith in the truth spoken by Photo. Often Photo was no longer reliable. Call it tampered, counterfeit, fake, forged – she was not telling the true story anymore. And when she was telling the true story, people would not believe Photo anyway. And so, when judges, courts, prosecutors and attorneys needed to use Photo for a case, it was very hard to believe her. Was she true? Was she false?<\/p>\n

Some lands wandered in chaos<\/a>, while others were still in dreamland and didn\u2019t recognize the chaos that was approaching. Only some brave solitary soldiers were able, with risks and perils, to inspect Photo for her truth. Some were relying on very fragile weapons like EXIF metadata and JPEG quantization tables that a skilled attacker could spoof rather easily. Others were using very powerful and mysterious sorceries, studied in universities spread across the different lands. There were very good wizards, but they were the only ones who could manage the magic techniques that they studied.<\/p>\n

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It was on a gloomy day, that the light shone again for the truth. It was the day when Authenticate<\/a> was found. This powerful weapon made the secret sorceries available to all the citizens of all the lands. Inhabitants from all over mastered Authenticate<\/a> in a matter of days and were finally able to tell the good from the bad, the real from the fake.<\/p>\n

And in the end they lived happily ever after.<\/p>\n

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And now the boring version, which nevertheless we hope will be exciting for all our trusted customers, users, fans and friends: after years of hard work we are finally glad to announce the immediate global availability of Amped Authenticate<\/a>, the world\u2019s most complete and advanced tool for analyzing the authenticity of an image. We are just at the first release and there is so much more we are working on, but there is no other tool on the market with all of Authenticate\u2019s features, including:<\/p>\n