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How long until personal testimony and non-repudiable crypto signatures are the only admissible evidence in court?
by wyager 10y ago
How long until personal testimony and non-repudiable crypto signatures are the only admissible evidence in court?
- thriftwy 10y agoMaybe it's the good thing. Law worked like this for ages and in some ways they managed. Of course it relied heavily on everybody knowing everybody else in much smaller societies, but that we can do also by doing an AR face lookup on every person we ever interact with.
- dragonwriter 10y agoSince the provenance of other evidence usually is a matter of personal testimony except where the provenance is not in dispute, I'm not sure why that would be necessary; the reliability of evidence is already determined by evaluation of personal testimony. Of course, eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable even when not intentionally deceptive, and testimony is much easier to falsify even without any technical aid than any other form of evidence, so relying solely on personal testimony wouldn't really help to avoid fabricated evidence, anyway.