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> The authorities said that the problems stemmed partly from police I.T. systems and partly from the phone companies’ systems, although a telecom industry repre
by penagwin 7y ago
> The authorities said that the problems stemmed partly from police I.T. systems and partly from the phone companies’ systems, although a telecom industry representative said he could not understand how phone companies could have caused the errors.
It appears data came from the telecom companies and straight to the police's IT department. I'm not sure what parties you're referring to?
Unless you're suggesting not to use data from telecom companies? In which case how would they get any records at all?
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoThe telecom company is the third party. Yes, I'm suggesting to not use data from telecom companies, unless they have a way to prove that said data is real.
- dagw 7y agoThe problem in this case wasn't the third party data, but an error in how that data was analysed and presented. By all accounts the raw data from the telecom companies was both complete and correct.
- lone_haxx0r 7y agoI'm talking about the general case. Maybe in this specific case the telecom data was correct, but can you assure the same for every datum ever provided? Trusting telecom data is essentially the same as trusting an eyewitness. The eyewitness says the truth sometimes, but you can't trust them as an infallible source of truth.