Wondering how you got in to that field? A few years back I was asked to informally provide a technical review the prosecution's evidence in a case involving a

Wondering how you got in to that field? A few years back I was asked to informally provide a technical review the prosecution's evidence in a case involving a former colleague. The police expert's sole credentials were a 10 year old A+ certification and a few employer-sponsored day courses, but was confidently representing themselves as an expert in networking/computing/technology. Their theory of the case was brutal - filled with nonsensical jargon, fabrications and misrepresentations. Things like "a computer behind a NAT is unreachable from the Internet under any circumstances". Instances where timestamps were implied to correlate but were actually 6+ hours apart once time zones were factored in. Pages and pages of things in that vein. None of that mattered - they were convicted anyway. It broke my faith in the justice system. The prosecution behaved in exactly the same way as today's legions of right-wing conspiracists, grifters and politicians do, because the truthfulness of their words didn't matter to them. Because the defense cared about the accuracy of what they were stating, they could be easily drowned out by confident, rapid bullshit and innuendo. I desperately want to find a way to help make the system better, but at every avenue the response has been "it's your funeral".