I still find it fascinating that you can go to jail because there’s an IP address in a log file somewhere or because of a screenshot of a messenger communication.
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asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What I am find curious about this is if a recovery email would have any weight in court. I can add whatever recovery email I want to an account. It doesn’t have to be mine.
gencha@lemm.ee 6 months ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Any more so than, say, fingerprints or DNA?
gencha@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Definitely. I can just write a log file myself, change the creation date in the filesystem if I have to. There are websites that generate images of DM conversations on a myriad of platforms online. Manipulation of these artifacts is beyond trivial
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or, for that matter, surveillance video recordings stored on a server somewhere. It’s all just ones and zeros, but some combinations of ones and zeros are quite informative.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
As technology progresses it is a fact of life that AI will get better at forgery. Perhaps these items will be less permissible in the future.
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
[deleted]asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because they want to frame someone else.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
proton.me/support/set-account-recovery-methods#ho…
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ah, makes sense.