The issue is preserving privacy versus a form convenience. The best way to preserve privacy is to have more control of your infrastructure thus your own email server. But most people, including most geeks, do not have the skills or time to properly run a personal email server. Thus for most using an email provider is the better option.
Overlooked in this issue is the fact that plain text emails are just look a snail mail postcard; anyone can read it while in transit. Having your own email server does not stop this.
The IOC has lost site that the Olympics should be about gifted athletes, not about squeezing money from sponsors and cities. Of course NBC's coverage does not help.
Non Commercial is an idiotic claim because fair use is often done in a commercial setting such as quotes in a book, movie reviews (Siskel & Ebert), etc.
It's not the scan that was the problem but its timing. What is not mentioned what time this happened (e.g. 2AM or 1PM). If it was an emergency surgery then there is a risk of this happening since by definition emergency surgery is unscheduled.
The real problem is that device manufacturers and the regulators do not care is patients die because of an IT cock-up. Now if both had some real skin in the game such as being vulnerable to murder charges when their criminal incompetence caused a patient to die that might help.
Elsevier is complaining about Sci-Hub. But Elsevier's actions are often closer to mafia shake downs than Sci-Hub's. So, who is the real criminal organization?
In the US public records are searchable by any member of the public. Many US jurisdictions try make at least the more common ones searchable online. Also, these records in cases must be published in the media such as in a local newspaper. It is quite likely the reporter was perusing the Manhattan weekly real estate transactions and noticed the sale.
Tell moron that he better not get married, divorced, die, or buy property in the US because these are published public records.
Usually most cases turn on a few key pieces of evidence and both sides are aware of the evidence. A competent defence team will challenge the solidness of these keys.
Good detectives know the limits of the evidence. But one key is amount of evidence present. If the murder weapon is found in your possession, your finger prints are present, your DNA is present, you were seen in the area at time of the crime, etc. you now have some explaining to do. One item is likely not enough to get a conviction.
Also, DNA testing has improved tremendously since it was first introduced to the point it is one the best methods to positively identify a person (except for identical twins) available. Many cold cases have been solved because of DNA evidence.
The point of the scientific evidence (all evidence actually) is not that each bit proves absolutely the guilt of the person but that there is enough evidence that beyond a reasonable doubt the person is guilty. If you apply probability, if each bit is 95% certain the more bits will push the overall certainty much higher.
The prosecutor's goal is often a conviction but in some jurisdictions the jury is charged with finding the truth.
Back to the issue in the post, part of the problem is crime scene evidence is often poor quality (smudged fingerprints, partial prints, etc.) that make accurate identification very difficult. Couple this with very sloppy evidence handling procedures (OJ trial when the detective kept the samples in his coat pocket) and there is no valid evidence.
This would not be the first time LE agencies botched an investigation so thoroughly that there will never a conviction no matter how guilty the defendant is.
The whale oil industry was in trouble when the petroleum industry started. 8-track tapes were made by the same companies that made vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CDs and most of them are still around.
Re: "Here's an idea, how about you do your work /and/ mine."
The donut eaters would rather sit around the table eating donuts, drinking coffee, and watching whatever the shop is streaming on the flatscreen. Actually get off their behinds and use the information they already have is a sacrilege called working.
The metadata such numbers called or texted should be enough to allow a brief visit with an abbreviated version of 20 questions. Even if it was a burner phone, a little bit of actual work might tie the phone to a person; it had to be purchased by someone, somewhere.
What is the story about the boy who cried wolf too often? The moral is the first couple of times people will often believe you but if you are shown to be liar then they start to tune your cries out.
The whole attack on Apple and encryption smells of a cover up of a FBI failure to break up a what was probably a known terror plot by them. The perjury is in lying to a tame judge that they needed to decrypt his company issued phone.
On the post: If You're Learning About It From Slate, Running Your Own Email Server Is A Horrendously Bad Idea
Very low wattage
Overlooked in this issue is the fact that plain text emails are just look a snail mail postcard; anyone can read it while in transit. Having your own email server does not stop this.
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Re: Patents, Trademarks and Channeled Ownership
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On the post: Elsevier Keeps Whac'ing Moles In Trying To Take Down Repository Of Academic Papers
Who's the criminal
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Public Records
Tell moron that he better not get married, divorced, die, or buy property in the US because these are published public records.
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Re: Science... Good for only 1 direction
Also, DNA testing has improved tremendously since it was first introduced to the point it is one the best methods to positively identify a person (except for identical twins) available. Many cold cases have been solved because of DNA evidence.
The point of the scientific evidence (all evidence actually) is not that each bit proves absolutely the guilt of the person but that there is enough evidence that beyond a reasonable doubt the person is guilty. If you apply probability, if each bit is 95% certain the more bits will push the overall certainty much higher.
On the post: Scientists Looking To Fix The Many Problems With Forensic Evidence
Re: Goals
Back to the issue in the post, part of the problem is crime scene evidence is often poor quality (smudged fingerprints, partial prints, etc.) that make accurate identification very difficult. Couple this with very sloppy evidence handling procedures (OJ trial when the detective kept the samples in his coat pocket) and there is no valid evidence.
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On the post: Apple Responds To DOJ's Attempt To Get Into Drug Dealer's Phone: Why You So Dishonest?
Re: Government logic for getting what it wants
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Re: "Here's an idea, how about you do your work /and/ mine."
The metadata such numbers called or texted should be enough to allow a brief visit with an abbreviated version of 20 questions. Even if it was a burner phone, a little bit of actual work might tie the phone to a person; it had to be purchased by someone, somewhere.
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Two traitors
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One word
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Failure and Perjury
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