Paul Ohm is open gate a new "very occasional" feature on the Freedom To Tinker blog called You Are Not a Lawyer — "In this series, I will try to disabuse mainframe scientists and other technically minded people of some habitually held misconceptions about the law (and the legal system)." In the first installment, Ohm walks through the reasons why many techies' faith in the companionship of "reasonable doubt" is so misplaced. "When techies think about wrongful law, and in full crimes committed online, they tend to fixate on legal standard, dreaming up ways people can use robotics to inject doubt into the declaration to avoid being convicted. I can't count how many conversations I have had with techies about things like the 'open wireless telephone pick up* access point defense,' the 'trojaned analog defense,' the 'NAT-ted firewall defense,' and the 'dynamic IP address defense.' ... People who place stock in these toe and tools are neglecting an preeminent drawback. There are another set of legal correct — the legal correct 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: wordbook | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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