The video that started this clippy campaign mentioned that. The message is that those sort of transgressions seem so minor compared to what companies bot only do, but get away with now
Clippy was hated at the time, but an annoying useless assistant that doesn't send anything to the Internet, let alone your personal data, seems like a dream now.
In my experience (some games in z80 and 68000 in the early 90s), version control wasn't considered until mid-90s sometime, and at first wasn't trusted. There were network backups, but I don't know if they had revisions.
Merging seemed like it couldn't possibly work well, so we would try to have separate ownership of different files. Although there would be only a handful of programmers on a team, so that was easy.
Prior to that, backup and versioning was manually handing a floppy or two to someone each week.
One of the terrible things is that they will bill you much more if you don't have insurance, or if you have insurance but they are not in your insurance "network" (which is basically your insurer acting like a union to negotiate prices down for it's members).
"If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the- World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH, the paint would't even have time to dry."
A private key would be built in to the camera. It would be stored in a way that's hard to get at, physically or in software (like the secure enclaves in phones).
The pics or videos are signed using the private key (again, this process needs to happen in a secure way without revealing the secret key).
The camera manufacturer publishes the matching public key. Anyone can use it to verify that the file matches the signature. But no one can sign a fake image unless they can get at the private key.
This would work even if the camera manufacturer no longer existed. The camera does need to ever be online.
The public/private key pairs are also part of what makes blockchains work, but for this process blockchains would add nothing.
Seriously. It's something about shampoo, hair conditioner, laundry detergent and laundry conditioner especially. The product type is printed as small as the dosage on med bottles.
The video that started this clippy campaign mentioned that. The message is that those sort of transgressions seem so minor compared to what companies bot only do, but get away with now
Clippy was hated at the time, but an annoying useless assistant that doesn't send anything to the Internet, let alone your personal data, seems like a dream now.