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It indeed doesn't seem fair to them that they are forced to share their trade secrets simply because the prosecutors elected to use their software.


it doesn't seem fair to sentence someone (to death?) based on a unaudited secret sauce tool.

the company can always retract their product if they want to keep it a trade secret.


You assume it to be one or the other.

The real solution would obviously that the prosecutors cannot enter into evidence the conclusions of any closed source software.

Of course, this only displaces the issue, what of the black box c.p.u.'s whereupon this software ran?




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