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The American government is not a single entity, it is comprised of many people both good and bad.
And with the magic of compartmentalization, both kinds of people can work together to create a horrible organization that does all kinds of evil around the world.
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Good thing these things come up to make the FBI's word worth less, then! We need some sort of standardised trust metric....
I'd prefer a better educated populace that realizes the "technical evidence" being submitted in many cases is essentially witness testimony and not physical evidence [e.g. fingerprints on the murder weapon] which I think many people believe. Witness testimony is perfectly fine as long as it isn't implied to be anything greater than that.
The metadata is technical evidence, not witness testimony. But...
Who wrote the software that collected the metadata? Any bugs in it? Any possibility that I did not, in fact, make that call?
Where was the metadata stored? Who had access to it? Could anybody have altered it, perhaps even to cover their own tracks?
Who had custody of the data after the records got pulled from the database? Any chance that they could have altered it? Maybe they knew that the prosecution's case was weak, and they wanted to make it look better?
In this way, technical evidence does in fact depend on witness testimony.
It continually amazes me that Americans can perpetuate the myth that their government is a democratic, moral force in the world given everything they have done, and are still doing...
Any system as large and complicated as this one will have failures. Our job is to learn from the past and try to prevent it from happening again in the future.
It continually amazes me that Americans can perpetuate the myth that their government is a democratic, moral force in the world given everything they have done, and are still doing...
It continually amazes me that Americans can perpetuate the myth that their government is a democratic, moral force in the world given everything they have done, and are still doing...
Any system as large and complicated as this one will have failures. Our job is to learn from the past and try to prevent it from happening again in the future.
In fact, that's what the authors of the Constitution were trying to do...