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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by buzer on Saturday August 19, 2023 @07:59PM (#37194620)
Somewhat similar thing does happens often with DNA evidence. Prosecution submits evidence where report was generated in proprietary software and company's employee testifies that the result is correct & tell the chance of false positive is 1 in 10 billion. Defense asks for access to source code to validate the claims and company says they are trade secrets & judge decides to not grant access and does not dismiss the evidence.
Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by rolph on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:13PM (#37194696)
Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by vondur on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:46PM (#37195226)
Ha. I got to see Dr. Mullins speak back in University. Fascinating guy.
Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by rolph on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:23PM (#37200573)
a diss in jest, an d demonstrating a possible court tactic.

yes that was a very colorful person.

Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by Crontab on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:35PM (#37195525)
I have wondered if there are matches between different people in DNA databases and, if so, how often is happens.
Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by scheme271 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:17AM (#37196084)
Depends on the lengths of the sequences being compared but the birthday problem indicates that it's more common than you'd expect.
Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by tomatocracy on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:52AM (#37198646)
At the very least there will be identical multiple births in some of them.