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Adelaide man caught up in bid to oust Obama
ABC Australia ^ | 8/4/2009 | Mark Colvin

Posted on 08/04/2009 5:55:59 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: Fresh Wind
The metadata can be removed. It was the layering info that got the ball rolling to find many anomalies in the Australian B.C. Start here and read on
21 posted on 08/04/2009 7:01:25 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: spacejunkie01

You mean the link to another post on another thread? Or the “pwned” comment?

We have been “pwned”. Badly.

I’m pretty sure the file I have saved is the original one, but I can’t be totally certain.

I routinely use Photoshop Elements to clean up photos from my camera, to adjust lighting, color, to do cropping, or any number of innocent things that don’t involve the intent to deceive.

The Kenyan image was obviously a photograph of a piece of paper. The image properties tell me it’s 72 dpi resolution, a normal thing to see from a digital camera.

The Australian image appears to be a scan of a piece of paper. The image properties tell me it’s 150 dpi resolution, a normal scanner setting.

Of course, neither image tells me anything conclusively what was involved in creating the pieces of paper that were either photographed or scanned.

But to take an image and draw conclusions about it based on what a piece of software does to it, when the person making those conclusions is ignorant of what the software is actually supposed to be doing is just crazy.


22 posted on 08/04/2009 7:03:15 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Too bad presidents don't come with certificates of authenticity.)
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To: Fresh Wind

oops


23 posted on 08/04/2009 7:05:08 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: Electric Graffiti
The metadata can be removed.

True.

It was the layering info that got the ball rolling to find many anomalies in the Australian B.C.

You missed my main point. The command that was run on the image file does not reveal layers in the image because the layer information is not there to begin with in a .jpg image.

If you plop multiple photographs onto your scanner bed and scan all of them, the command will isolate each of the photographs into separate files so that you don't have to do that manually or do multiple scans. It's a handy time saver. If you do it on a single image, the software is trying to find boundaries that don't exist. That's why it chopped the Australian image into multiple parts, which were erroneously called "layers". It didn't do anything with the "Kenyan" image probably because of the geometric distortion (the software is looking for clear horizontal and vertical divisions).

Start here and read on

Can't now, gotta go.

24 posted on 08/04/2009 7:16:12 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Too bad presidents don't come with certificates of authenticity.)
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To: markomalley
DINA ROSENDORFF: Internet security expert Dr Asha Rao from RMIT University says although this case is quite funny, it's also very dangerous.

ASHA RAO: It just shows you what is possible on the Internet; that ultimately digital documents come down to a string of zeros and ones. This is an extreme case. Of course they must have trawled around and found something they could use.

And that's the main reason we MUST have in reliable trusted hands, the actual birth documents and not just accept a digital image of Obama's.
25 posted on 08/04/2009 7:38:25 AM PDT by bvw
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A movement known as the Birthers, which originated in California,

Now there's a new piece of information unearthed by our ever vigilant press. < /sarc>

26 posted on 08/04/2009 8:10:45 AM PDT by cookcounty
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To: markomalley

This is all so confusing. Who and what is a fraud? If there is a place where you could find all the arguments pro or con the Kenyan BC (without readuing 13,000 posts), that would be helpful.


27 posted on 08/04/2009 8:14:34 AM PDT by cookcounty
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To: Lazamataz

Yes, he’s a PUBLIC SERVANT (with access to old documents?) who ‘used to not like Obama but now thinks he just great’, and is himself a conspirist?


28 posted on 08/04/2009 9:44:29 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: beagleone

What does DNA prove? DNA doesn’t list location of birth?

God, the libs are so stupid and remind me of my dog that I can pretend to throw something and he’ll run after *it* everytime.


29 posted on 08/04/2009 9:56:58 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Fresh Wind

Opening the Bromford B.C. in notepad shows ‘Lead Technologies Inc. V1.01’

Opening the ‘original’ Kenya B.C. (before it was changed at the website) shows nothing.


30 posted on 08/04/2009 10:05:35 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Fresh Wind

Here is their website...

http://www.leadtools.com/


31 posted on 08/04/2009 10:08:17 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Bigh4u2

I just opened the replaced copy of the Kenya B.C. and it says...”Ducky.......Adobe”


32 posted on 08/04/2009 10:13:18 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: bvw

“ASHA RAO: It just shows you what is possible on the Internet; that ultimately digital documents come down to a string of zeros and ones. This is an extreme case. Of course they must have trawled around and found something they could use.”

That has been what has cracked me up from the beginning.

Their logic is that this ‘could be photoshopped digital’ image is just trying to prove that Obama’s ‘could be photoshopped digital’ image is a fake.

Huh?

This is why we want the ORIGINAL from HAWAII presented as evidence IN A COURT OF LAW.

Not judge some judge (as one has actually said) saying “This is has been twittered and texted and it’s settled”. WTF? “Twittered and texted” is now what the court deems as submissable evidence?


33 posted on 08/04/2009 10:20:22 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Ok for the non tech folks ...who is right you or Fresh Wind...?

Last night after being convince the Kenya doc was a fake I became convinced that the Aussie doc was a fake .

There was no need for the Aussies to be hacked (if they were hacked) ...the image could be lifted from the internet and doctored.

all that I have read says the Aussie deal is the fake


34 posted on 08/04/2009 10:20:37 AM PDT by woofie
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To: autumnraine

This Mr. Bomford and his “birth certificate” seem a bit too slick and convenient to me.

More background on the man might be useful.


35 posted on 08/04/2009 10:24:05 AM PDT by Deo volente (Will the real Birth Certificate please stand up?)
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To: Fresh Wind
Have to run. Leaving your "commercial" criticism aside, you are saying then in your "professional" opinion that the Australian photo is untouched and legitimate? Is that what should be gleaned from your very long post? You did not see photoshop tags (editable by the way) so this was real and not manipulated? From you post it sounds like you are calling the Kenyan document a fraud, but the Australian is real. Was that the conclusion you reached in your very "long" post? Is this what you are telling me and the Freepers on this thread?

Your conclusion is that this is the fraud:

Your saying this is the fraud (Kenyan)?



Your saying this is the truth (Australian)?



Anticipating your expert and reasoned reply!
36 posted on 08/04/2009 10:29:44 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: autumnraine

Zettaini sou desu!


37 posted on 08/04/2009 10:33:38 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Fresh Wind

from another thread:


To: Fresh Wind
Opening the Bromford B.C. in notepad shows ‘Lead Technologies Inc. V1.01’

Opening the ‘original’ Kenya B.C. (before it was changed at the website) shows nothing.

30 posted on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:05:35 AM by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)

Opening the Bromford B.C. in notepad shows ‘Lead Technologies Inc. V1.01’

Opening the ‘original’ Kenya B.C. (before it was changed at the website) shows nothing.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is from last night

So why would you say what you said about adobe?


38 posted on 08/04/2009 10:34:43 AM PDT by woofie
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To: markomalley
DINA ROSENDORFF: David Jeffrey Bomford's language was a touch too colourful for radio when PM first contacted him with news his birth certificate had been used in a bid to oust Barack Obama.


There were some posts on another thread that reported he was calling in to Plains Radio last night, sounding drunk, and threatening to take down Dr. Taitz and others.

And what's this nonsense about Bomford's BC being used "in a bid to oust Barack Obama"? If anything, the point of his forged BC (if it is forged) would presumably be to discredit the people who question Obama's eligibility. It would be the opposite of what this reporter is suggesting.
39 posted on 08/04/2009 10:38:33 AM PDT by Deo volente (Will the real Birth Certificate please stand up?)
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To: Bigh4u2
Opening the Bomford B.C. in notepad shows ‘Lead Technologies Inc. V1.01’

I saved a copy from the Bomford URL:

http://www.bomford.net/worcestershire/images/DavidJeffreyBomfordBirthCertDoc65.jpg

and verify this statement as true.

40 posted on 08/04/2009 11:02:51 AM PDT by Kells
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