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Re: Fw: [IACIS-L] Statement by Defense Expert
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:47:35 -0400
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:36:08 -0000, =?utf-8?B?SmFzb24gQ29vbWJz?= said:
Until and unless a person has worked for years as a software engineer, and has studied technical details of information security including the creation and exploitation of software bugs to force software to do things that it was never designed to do, there is no way that a person can imagine the precise technical implications of the sort of scenarios that we encounter in the real world when law enforcement computer examiners and prosecutors collaborate to transform a particular bit of data into forensic evidence of guilt to be used against a person who stands accused of a crime.
So I take it that law enforcement computer examiners and prosecutors *do* have the years of experience in software engineering and exploit construction and use, to qualify them to translate a bit of data into forensic evidence of guilt? Since the standard is "innocent until proven guilty", it would seem that the prosecution's interpretation would need to be even *more* technically rigorous that the defense's interpretation. However, the number of district attorneys and detectives that have 10 and 20 years of full-time work experience in computer security is very limited, so one wonders why the court would accept the findings from a prosecution expert that doesn't have the qualifications that you imply a defense expert should have? Also - do you require that all DNA testing be done by a professional with several decades of research in genetics, or do you allow a well-trained technician to do the work?
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