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Wouldn't this set a precedent to eventually force any forensic software to become open source?

• jMyles 6y ago
  It's unfathomable that the state can introduce evidence of any variety that isn't open source. Secret policing and secrecy in prosecution have no place in decent society.
• gsich 6y ago
  Hopefully.
• vincnetas 6y ago
  Code inspections is not same as open source.
• Zenst 6y ago
  Not per-say, though it certainly affords it the same level of scrutiny. Which may well be a win as open source already has that. However, even open source has bugs that pass scrutiny as many CVE's can attest, so whilst a code review may find nothing wrong, that in itself could be used by a lawyer to create reasonable doubt, if the lawyer is good.
  • jlgaddis 6y ago
    > per-say https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se
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• schmorptron 6y ago
  That'd be ideal
• jimnotgym 6y ago
  I guess open-source implementations of various algorithms that had been demonstrated effective, if produced by a not-for-profit maybe, could be very disruptive to this 'industry'.