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You are confusing an engineering process with a legal one. Unfortunately, when the prosecutors come, they will only care about the legal process.

• CyberDildonics 11y ago
  It's not engineering, it's common sense.
  • compiler-guy 11y ago
    Common sense is not a set of legal procedures and rules either. The legal world cares about how the law applies to the facts of the case, not about how common sense applies. Not saying I like it.
    • jsprogrammer 11y ago
      The facts are dictated by the engineering. Is a lawyer a computer networks expert? Not by default. They will need to defer to the engineers.
      • compiler-guy 11y ago
        Certainly, some of the facts are dictated by the engineering. However, the set of people "authorized" is not, at least not from a legal perspective. This is what the case law says. The fact that the set of people who technically _can_ access the data is different from the set of people legally authorized to access the data. That might not be what the engineers who designed the system, run it, and produce the content intended, but that is what the law says. It's a bummer the two disagree. But only one of the two systems put you in jail if you cross them. You and I may wish it were otherwise, but wishing isn't going to make it so.