I think the "high resolution helps forgers and impersonators" argument is
spurious.
Let's assume the logo were to be used improperly. Most people don't know
what the "right" logo is. A decent image quality (straight lines, etc) would
fool most people if it looked "professional" whether technically accurate or
not. Social engineering does the rest (not everyone will argue with someone
who claims forcefully they are FBI). Basic image cleanup is something anyone
can do these days and any computer can tidy up a poor quality image to look
"clean" (photoshop). If there was doubt asd to appearance most impersonators
only need to google image: "fbi badge" to get close enough.
In simple terms I don't see any merit whatsoever to a claim that a good
quality copy helps impersonators. Any impersonator will easily be able to do
the job well enough to fool most people, and any capable impersonator will
not be affected by Wikimedia's decision.
FT2
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:11 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 August 2010 16:57, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
I think I found the word, early in 2007.
Misunderstanding that Gerard is
more g'day than have a nice is a poor basis for any such judgement.
Yes, the thread has been rather non sequitur all the way down. Assume
some bad faith and why, it's a microcosm!
- d.
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