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"Your honor the defendant's self-maintained list of hashes is obviously inadmissible because if authentic, it won't be incriminating, and if tampered with, it m
by EPWN3D 3y ago
"Your honor the defendant's self-maintained list of hashes is obviously inadmissible because if authentic, it won't be incriminating, and if tampered with, it must be disregarded. This has no relevance to the hashes independently discovered in his possession, which were found to be on Ofcom's list of illegal hashes."
"Agreed, motion to exclude granted, the case will proceed to trial."
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoAlright, my bad for not being more concrete. Let me try: "Your honor, the hash 6f5902ac237024bdd0c176cb93063dc4 was found in Ofcom's illegal hash list, which is the MD5 hash for 'hello world' all lowercase. 'hello world' is obviously not illegal. Someone must have found a way to put it in there, perhaps maliciously, perhaps by accident, perhaps due to a bribe [per the parent comment], perhaps as an act of protest. Ether way, it proves not every hash in the hash dump is illegal, and we have no way of knowing whether the legal ones outnumber the illegal ones by 1 to 10, or 10 to 1, or 1 million to 1. Indeed we have good reason to believe malicious actors would want to fill this database up with meaningless hashes as much as possible if any backdoor was found. Therefore evidence from Ofcam's database must be considered inadmissible."
- pixl97 3y agoEh how do you think this hash database would work? More likely it would be... without you or your lawyer present.."device X owned by person Y had a hash hit register to child pornography, we would like a search warrant for this device" Judge "granted"