>>>> Good point. The term is "on the balance of probabilities". That scares
>>>> me - I wonder what sort of probability courts would accept for civil
>>>> cases (if they even know what the word probability means, which is by no
>>>> means certain in english courts!).
>>>
>>>
>>> 50% in a civil trial.  If I can prove that you "more likely than not" 
>>> stole 100USD from me in a
>>> civil trial you'll owe me 100USD.  I may not be able to get you sent 
>>> to jail, but I can get my
>>> money.
>>>
>>> Yeah that scares me too.
>>>
>> 
>> Would it not be better for deniability if splitfiles were routed and 
>> cached under one meta key (with a suffix for part number)?  Then, 
>> whoever requested the split file would naturally go to the best node for 
>> that key to get all the parts, and it would be commonplace for any node 
>> en route to deal with all the parts.  Perhaps this has some 
>> disadvantages from the POV of distributing and storing files, but would 
>> seem to help the plausible deniability side of things.
>
>I don't think that's necessary.  Fish's and panamerica's "I was framed!" 
>idea is a pretty great defense.  Read those recent posts.

actually it was not meant as a defence but as an ATTACK to get someone jailed because 
the victim will have a hard time convicing the court the bad content has been injected 
into his/her node and not requested by 
him/her him-/herself !



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