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Yet Another Andrew Breitbart Smear Falls Apart

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Charles Johnson5/30/2011 3:38:51 pm PDT

re: #83 Sergey Romanov

If it wasn’t from his Bb then it supports his account about hacking (though he wrote about his FB being hacked, go figure), though it doesn’t provide iron-clad evidence (it’s not like he necessarily uses only Bb). I don’t necessarily believe one version over another at this point.

Anyhow, it’s not the prurient aspect that interests me here (couldn’t care less, frankly), rather it’s the widespread acceptance of faux photo-pseudo-analysis by DailyKos and progressive blogosphere, which is not unlike what happened to Obama’s birth certificates. “Heat maps”, anyone?

OK, rant over. Back to the lair.

Error level analysis is a very real forensics technique, though; it’s been used by intelligence services to analyze Al Qaeda photos, for example:

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