Blogger NBC has a new post up showing a pdf created by a Xerox that he claims has “halos, x-ray effect and identical pixel elements.”
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/scoresheet/
“August 18 Today has been another great day. Two new PDF’s were found that were scanned on Xerox. They show the YCbCr comment and align at 8 bit boundaries.”
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/the-museum-pdf/
“The Museum PDF”
Posted on August 19, 2013 by NBC
“The document is an 11×17 scan, in ‘portrait’, so no messy rotations but several features have been checked. The YCbCr comment string is, once again, present. The Quantization Matrices are the same and the foreground images align. The document also shows halos, x-ray effect and identical pixel elements.”
I zoomed in on the word “AUGUST” in the USA TODAY title. The “U”s are pixel for pixel the same.
Trying the same things and getting different results is a positive form of crazy if you try using it as a proof of anything. What it would prove is either that something changed, or all the phenomena are inconsistent and whimsical, which flies in the face of what computing is all about.
What changes to the workflow cause halos, x-ray effect, and identical pixel elements? Why were they not showing up before and show up now? And what other documents provably created in 2011 show these features?
And while they’re at it, somebody could try explaining why the white copy long-form has cross-hatches showing only on one side of the document, with a clear cut-off line right where the BC portion ends and the certification portion begins - on a scan with bleed-through from a page behind the one being scanned. If the long-form was fed in with an automatic feed there wouldn’t have been any document underneath when it was being scanned. If the long-form was manually placed on the glass to be copied, why would you put another document on top of it? And why would anything show through anyway, if you’re copying security paper?
Is the white copy a scan of the long-form, as claimed in the press gaggle? If so, how could that have been created using the same workflow as it is said the White House folks used?
Another “great day”??? Amazing how this person keeps coming up with evidence to support the theory ... almost miraculous.
So from the thousands of this popular Xerox machine in the world generating millions of Adobe files using this supposed algorithm. They ‘found’ 2 examples.
With Adobe standard you can test most of these in under 2 minutes. So far - every one fails. They are not the same as WH posted file.