Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas [video]
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This one contains french and german audio as well, with the addition of not being hosted on youtube.
Everyone, if you ever speak at CCC, please try to stand still. It's nigh impossible to do this picture-in-picture layout if you don't.
But sure, if you do it on purpose because you think it helps, by all means, move however you want. We will do our best to track you.
I'm mainly thinking of unconscious moving. But sure, if you are nervous due to the huge audience, you will think of other things and not that - which is why we don't approach speakers about this before their talk.
You'd think this could be solved with the proper zoom angle but then the pros get on your case with too much headspace, unfavorable body cut lines and never forget to never film the audience.
I just talked to a speaker for tomorrow who, from the video material, assumed they'd be talking in front of maybe a hundred people. They're scheduled for room B which holds about 2000 and got a shock.. so the dimensions look quite different on the stream.
The issue can be mitigated by a better filming crew really. The mixer is really important for coordinating (when the cameras do random stuff once in a while you probably have a inexperienced mixer who uses the intercom too little). It's possible to follow the speaker well enough if the mixer gives breaks and the camera tripod settings are right for you. Special cases get an experienced crew.
Not sure about the stage fright. I think it depends on the details actually, but I'm still working on that too.
A guide would be good though. I'll suggest it further.
While I understand the problem of tracking, it has to be said that people who move around the stage usually have a more more engaging stage presence. In contrast, people who stand rigidly at the lectern are often boring. ing, it has to be said that people who move around the stage usually have a more more engaging stage presence. In contrast, people who stand rigidly at the lectern are often boring.
Sounds like a task for OpenCV face tracking :-)
The other issue I spread discussed at length in a sibling comment.
There are either non deep-learning tracking, or deep-learning tracking using open-pose.
With the right equipment, this is very doable. You need a high quality camera head and longish arms placed a comfortable level. Here’s an example
http://news.psu.edu/photo/273494/2013/04/17/lv-comm282-studi...
Remember people shoot video of running, twisting basketball players in game all time.
Because it seems that we've got a lot of work to do. How people are okay with their taxes paying for things like JTRIG is really dis-heartening ..
The whole thing seems remarkably amateur and low effort. Their slide of limitations is revealing - lack of language skills, no real process for handoffs over vacation times, use of a dedicated URL shortener that only GCHQ use instead of the many commercially available ones - these seem like basic errors. I find it hard to believe that this was a well funded effort or even achieved much at all.
It also casts some new light on the "Russian bots are taking over" establishment meltdown. Projection much? Obviously western government figures know their own staff are doing this sort of thing, so they assume that Russia is too and the lack of hard evidence of the type shown in this talk is neither here nor there.
[1] http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
To be fair, "russia" spent $100K on facebook ads and won the election for Trump. /s
If you pay attention, it's obvious there are some russian, chinese, saudi, etc manipulation on social media. But the vast majority of the manipulation and "fake news" on social media is pushed by the british, israel, EU, Canada, etc. Not only that, their social media manipulation is also backed by the establishment media.
How much "Prince Harry marries X" and british royal family is all over the media and social media along with the sock puppets manipulating the conversation?