Summary
This blog post critically examines Adobe's TrustMark watermarking technology, highlighting its significant unreliability through extensive testing. The author shares insights from hands-on experimentation with various images, revealing a high rate of false positives and doubts about the effectiveness of TrustMark in real-world scenarios. Various technical aspects of TrustMark, including its models and error correction mechanisms, are discussed, ultimately concluding that TrustMark fails to reliably indicate genuine watermark presence amid the noise of numerous false detections.