On May 29, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Flavio Silva wrote:
It sounds like you can also challenge the credentials of the
expert, but
that might be a problem if they were appointed by the judge. An
indictment
of this technician will essentially be an indictment of the judge.
IANAL, and I've no knowledge of or interests in the particulars of
this case. That being said:
There's also the possibility of MITM (via routing or ARP or proxying
or what-have-you), and then there's the issue of tracing an email
back to a particular -computer system- does not equate to tracing it
back to a particular -person- (i.e., did anyone else have physical
access to the computer, was the computer trojanned/botted so that
others could remotely control the computer and send email without the
owner's knowledge, etc.).
Nonrepudiation simply isn't a property of the vast majority of
ordinary, consumer-grade Internet email systems (assuming that's what
you're dealing with, in this instance). This should be quite easy to
demonstrate in everyday language which a nontechnical person can
understand.
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