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,
• wherein the recording device comprises a camera comprising an optical filter, the camera being supported on the spine, and
• wherein the affecter subsystem comprises an illuminator supported on the spine at a different location from the camera to provide a parallax sight onto the scene.

A method of managing recorded information, comprising:

• supporting a recording device and an affecter subsystem on a spine of an article, which is wearable by a user;
• recording, at an untrusted controller via the recording device, a scene influenced by the affecter subsystem 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,
• wherein the recording device comprises a camera comprising an optical filter, the camera being supported on the spine, and
• wherein the affecter subsystem comprises an illuminator supported on the spine at a different location from the camera to provide a parallax sight onto the scene.