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STRMix should either allow the source to be examined or brief the court that their software isn't suitable for use in criminal prosecution because it is a black
by scrps 5y ago
STRMix should either allow the source to be examined or brief the court that their software isn't suitable for use in criminal prosecution because it is a black box. You can't eat your cake and have it too.
- carlmr 5y agoI think we should petition for a law that states this. Companies will never do this out of benevolence. Something along the lines of "Any software used to determine guilt in a court of law, either directly or indirectly, must be open sourced to the public. Binaries used must be provably obtained from the published version, using an open source toolchain, reproducible by the public, free of charge."
- scrps 5y agoI fully agree but sadly in the U.S. it will take the better part of a decade just to explain binaries, toolchains, and trusted reproducibility to politicians. I think the larger issue is that the political and legal class in the U.S. has a combination of arrogant ignorance and willful ignorance when it comes to anything to do with tech.
- barelysapient 5y agoCompletely agree. Even better as a constitutional amendment. Imagine if finger print matching and other sorts of identifying methods were so opaque?