[AusNOG] metadata conference on SkyNews

[Mark Newton]

On 12 Aug 2014, at 9:55, "Pinkerton, Eric (AU Sydney)" <eric.pinkerton at baesystems.com> wrote:

>> I would assume you could defend yourself in court with "I may pay the bill, but I did not download that ... "
> 
> "The Cheerleader Defence' as it's known has been proven time and time again to be problematic to say the least..

In this country, the so-called cheerleader defense has worked out pretty well. Formed the core of several of the uncontested findings of fact in AFACT v iiNet, and has been used successfully by at least one defendant in a child abuse case who benefited from shoddy police work because the cops hadn't bothered to prove that he did what they said he did.

   - mark