Wearable time-bracketed video authentication

A wearable video recording system with time-bracketed authentication, comprising:

• an article, including a spine, wearable by a user;
• a recording device, supported on the spine, to generate a recording of a scene;
• an affecter subsystem, supported on the spine, to influence the scene being recorded with unpredictable data;
• and
• an untrusted controller coupled to the recording device and the affecter subsystem,
• the untrusted controller being receptive of the unpredictable data from a single trusted source or one or more somewhat-trusted sources, which the untrusted controller communicates to the affecter subsystem, and being configured to transmit at least hashed digests of the recording to a single trusted repository or one or more somewhat-trusted repositories.

A method of managing recorded information, comprising:

• recording, at an untrusted controller, a scene influenced by the recorder with unpredictable data received from a single trusted source or one or more somewhat trusted sources;
• transmitting at least hashed digests of the recording from the untrusted controller to a single trusted repository or one or more somewhat trusted repositories;
• freely publicizing hardware design and source code for the single trusted source, the one or more somewhat trusted sources, the single trusted repository and/or the one or more somewhat trusted repositories;
• and
• providing restricted access to client subsystem hardware and software information relating to the untrusted controller.