Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned after hack

Re:Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned af... by outworlder on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:20PM (#26945998)

> Is this really different from the police taking a physical file folder and adding or removing pieces of paper?

I wish we would stop trying to come up with analogies to computing concepts.

But since you insist: this is like the file folder came from Harry Potter and could be possessed by an evil spirit that could change the contents without your knowledge.

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Re:Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned af... by Isthatablackgsd on Monday April 26, 2021 @02:43PM (#26946333)

We can't stop using analogies. It helps us to bridge the information and use it as a reference to get a better understanding of it.

Analogies help those people are not familiar with the jargon or the field of study. You may be an expert in the computing concept, but the rest of us are not an expert in that field. Analogies is where it helps to understand it better.

So the answer is no, we can't stop using analogies.

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