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Re:Ask HN: Look at the lawsuits on Mark Zuckerberg's Faceboo... by keiferski on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:18AM (#2437546)
How are 7-year old emails from an ex-con convincing? The only "authority" that thinks they are convincing are some editors on BusinessWeek and Reuters.
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Re:Ask HN: Look at the lawsuits on Mark Zuckerberg's Faceboo... by bdclimber14 on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:54AM (#2440821)
The convincing authority is the plaintiff's law firm, which has tasked their digital forensics team with analyzing the documents and concluded that it is authentic and has taken the case on. It's not just BusinessWeek and Reuters.
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Re:Ask HN: Look at the lawsuits on Mark Zuckerberg's Faceboo... by jrsmith1279 on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:25AM (#2437582)
Have you read them? I'm not denying that it's easy to fake emails, but if you really pay attention to how the emails are written and how natural the flow of conversation between them is then you can see why they're convincing.
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Re:Ask HN: Look at the lawsuits on Mark Zuckerberg's Faceboo... by ceejayoz on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:32AM (#2437614)
Con-men get pretty good at being convincing. It's something of a job requirement.
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Re:Ask HN: Look at the lawsuits on Mark Zuckerberg's Faceboo... by kerben on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @12:15PM (#2437829)
Not sure what you found convincing - it certainly screamed doctored conversation to me...
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