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Re:Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA t... by Blikkentrekker on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:56AM (#26074951)
I do not find this reality worse at all than people being convicted upon the black box testimony of blood splatter analysts, which is simply an expert testifying that in his conclusion the blood indicated such-and-that.

Or of course, that the U.S.A. permits conviction based on the sworn testimony of a single eye witness, which is noteably unreliable.

All of these are black boxes that are routinely meant to convict. — it would not surprise me if such software were far more reliable than human eye witness accounts, but if there's one thing I noticed, it's that a man is seldom afraid of bad matters, he is only afraid of bad matters produced by new technology; far worse matters can stay, so long as they be ancient enough.

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