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We may later view the short period in which A/V recordings as authoritative over first-hand accounts was a brief "glitch" in the history of the world. The abil
by ballenf 8y ago
We may later view the short period in which A/V recordings as authoritative over first-hand accounts was a brief "glitch" in the history of the world.
The ability to fake such things means that we have to return to trusting our fellow human and making wise choices about who can be trusted.
Fingerprints, DNA samples will remain of varying degrees more difficult to fake, but one must assume that those too will fall as paragons of unassailable guilt (or innocence, but usually guilt).
- sambull 8y agoThose should already have fallen. Gross human incompantance/perverse incentives to use science as a blackbox for prosecution
- tonto 8y agoYou really just don't like forensic science or what
- on_and_off 8y agohttps://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/ https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/ DNA is not the end all of an investigation
- qop 8y agoIf the people who prosecute you are the people who report the dna, whose to say they don't just say that it matched when it really didn't? Fakable media needs to be decentralized, period. Edit: not parent commenter, btw, just my personal two cents
- toss1 8y agoDNA contamination is already turning out to be very widespread, we shed it everywhere, it lasts, and can get on victims' clothing, fingernails, etc.. Also contamination in labs. Read recently about a case with apparently solid DNA evidence under victim's fingernails, supposed perp no real memory, but it turns out the police had him in custody at the time of the crime. He'd eaten in the same restaurant days earlier. I can't find the article quickly, but it was recent. Some others: https://newrepublic.com/article/123177/how-dna-evidence-incriminated-impossible-suspect https://newrepublic.com/article/123177/how-dna-evidence-incr... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reasonable-doubt/480747/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso... http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110808 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....