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> To help me understand, could you make an analogy for a drug bust? You can verify that: 1) Drugs were present at the location at the time of the arrest. 2)
by fweespeech 10y ago
> To help me understand, could you make an analogy for a drug bust?
You can verify that:
1) Drugs were present at the location at the time of the arrest.
2) They are in fact drugs.
3) That a chain of custody exists.
4) The people involved in the arrest and the person arrested.
With "classified, closed source software" you can verify:
1) The people involved in the arrest and the person arrested.
You cannot verify:
1) If the software works as explained/intended.
2) You cannot verify the person was present at the time of the crime.
3) You cannot verify the chain of custody because you have no idea. ( http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/chain+of+custody http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/chain+of+custo... )
- Consultant32452 10y agoHow would you verify that drugs weren't present at the time of arrest? Generally the arresting officers' word is going to be taken as fact unless you can prove otherwise. So you'd basically have to have your own video recording of the event showing the officer planting the drugs. This is the functional equivalent to "If the software works as explained." If drugs are found at your house, but not on you, you're still going to jail. So there goes #2. Why would you not be able to verify chain of custody for digital evidence?
- EdHominem 10y agoThe difference is the attack surface. They only get one chance to plant drugs. They have unlimited attempts to fake finding data on your encrypted drive image. "Your Honor, the new version of the program found kiddyporn that we missed before." And even if you decrypted the drive you wouldn't be able to prove you didn't have the data steganographically hidden, so there's no possible way you could refute the claim.