[ale] cabling and GA

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 03/30/2010 05:42 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 16:39 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>> >  Why would one need such a license to take an image of a hard disk or
>> >  some other type of media?  That seems to me like the state just grasping
>> >  for reasons to put money in its pocket.  I mean, anyone can take a
>> >  precise, bit-for-bit backup of a hard disk drive using dd, if they have
>> >  the hardware to move the bits to.  I would think that if you were
>> >  *interpreting*  data for the court, though, that you would then_maybe_
>> >  need a license or credential of some sort that says you know what you're
>> >  doing, though thankfully it's typically pretty easy to figure out
>> >  definitively what happened how, since most users never clean up when
>> >  they do things because they think that deleting a file is great
>> >  security, for some reason.
> If you were being charged with a crime then your defense is going to do
> anything possible to discredit evidence.

It just seems to me that is, if anything, a highlight of a very 
significant flaw of our legal system.  :-|

	--- Mike

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