Ask HN: Tamper resistant geolocated pictures
Intuitively, I would think that it would be impossible to give this kind of guarantee with a software-only solution that ran on standard smart phones, as it would be easy enough to run the software on a development virtual machine that could be undetectable by the software, and could feed any picture and GPS data the faker wanted.
On the contrary, with a hardware solution which integrated the camera, GPS, end encryption on the same chip, registering also the focus, exposition and other data, I would expect the system to be much more difficult to tamper with.
So what I'd like to ask anybody expert in the field is:
* is there anything like this already on the market, or being worked on? Any chance to see something like this hit the consumer market anytime soon?
* how easy would it be to trick a dedicated hardware solution using fake GPS signals?
* does any cell phone on the market have any hardware encryption solution that would allow creating a difficult-to-tamper software solution?
Thx!