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While not ransomware, per se, it reminds me one day video and voice will be fake-able with deepfake like tech. Someone goes missing, say a wealthy person or family member(s), some could generate fake videos of a kidnapping and ask for ransom from the rest of the family.
More troubling is if more advanced techniques may be one day not only fool humans at first sight, but might reach a point where all statistical analysis cannot tell them apart from real images. Where even advanced careful analysis may be fooled too.
As for troubling fake video, we have to understand koomey law, and the fact that in essence we're still in a sense able to do many doublings of available computation in an everyday computer. What takes days today, will take minutes one day. Both algorithmic advancements as well as increasing computation available will make it so.
A few decades from now, taking someone and generating a realistic video of them doing just about anything, might be as easy and with as little time consumption as generating a gif meme is nowadays.
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