Pap Smear

Sampo Syreeni decoy at iki.fi
Tue Jun 12 02:42:57 PDT 2001


On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:

>Check out the house and, sure enough, the window has been broken into, and
>right by the broken window is a pile of child porn.  Wouldn't ANY sensible
>person conclude that more likely than not it was planted there?

Except if the virus code is well known, and deemed trustworthy.

>By the way, has this JD lawyer ever READ the constitution? The 4th clearly
>states and I quote "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause
>SUPPORTED BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION". (emphasis mine).  Clearly computer
>generated spam doesn't meet this criterion.

Admissibility also comes to mind. But those kinds of legal standards are a
US specialty. The rest of us will be in trouble with the false reports.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy at iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front





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