[FDE] on the proposed demise of the bill of rights

[Crispin Cowan]

dan at geer.org wrote:
> What numeric value converts this sentence:
>
>  I would rather ____ guilty go free
>  than 1 innocent be imprisoned. 
>
> to this sentence
>
>  I cannot countenance ____ guilty going free
>  just to protect 1 innocent.
>   
Interesting question. My indignant gut reaction of "never!" is clearly
wrong, as no justice system can achieve a false positive rate of zero,
nor can we live without a justice system. So i don't really know my own
answer, but I suspect it has several zeros in it :-)

> Pedantically, see slides 248-258, perhaps even
> 232-258, at [1].  I'm not advertising; I'm just
> acknowledging that I am on-record.
>
> --dan
>
> [1]
> http://geer.tinho.net/measuringsecurity.tutorialv2.pdf
>   
Gets a 404 error. I assume this is the correct URL
http://geer.tinho.net/usenix/measuringsecurity.tutorialv2.pdf

Which is worth reading, at least the pages Dan cited, for some very
interesting data if nothing else.

Crispin

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