I am repeating myself, but this is about systems, and not about people.

It is however in the interest of the people to keep the systems running in an untainted way.

As said, on the individual level it's a tragedy, but one that can be absorbed somewhat. Democracy itself failing otoh is kinda hard to absorb.

C2PA is not "having security". It is "having an illusion of security for compliance and CYA reasons, that can be fairly trivially exploited by nation state actors". Banality of evil. Again.

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Actually, come to think of it, "security" is the wrong term there. Signatures don't secure anything. They attest.

Those are different things. Argh and I ran with your term aah