But, that is exactly what happened last year, with the image of the purported Hawaiian document, by whatever name.
All the snooping in the world can't prove a thing about the object photographed or scanned. You need the physical piece of paper to go about determining anything.
People are clearly fascinated by this, and want to help. That desire to help is being sorely taken advantage of, by those who wish to smokescreen the whole thing.
Either the original purported legal document is authentic, or it is not. The image of the original, purported legal document doesn't matter.
I agree with you. All we have to go on with the Kenyan cert is a low-res photograph of a piece of paper. No one seems to be taking into consideration that it would be just as easy to create a fake certificate, print it out and age it by folding it, staining it, whatever, and then taking a picture of it. We just do not have enough information to go on regarding the Kenyan cert and all the speculation is for naught. If Orly doesn't have that document in her possession, she won't be able to get an authentication from this photograph.
Now the Broward cert, on the other hand, looked like a fraud to me. There was some craziness going on in the upper left hand corner with those numbers that did not look quite right to me. It looks like numbers from a different color scan were clipped and 'shopped onto this document. And I think PA Engineer's findings re: layering and folds are pretty damning.
I was also online when Technical Editor made his initial post and my BS radar went off. He just "happened" across some obscure website featuring some guy's Australian birth certificate when he did a Google search for "Kenyan birth certificates?" Seemed terribly convenient.
Patience, young grasshoppers. One cannot perpetuate a lie of this magnitude forever.