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Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Protesting that Tufts University's DHCP-based systems 'were not designed to facilitate forensic examinations,' but rather to ensure 'smooth operations and to manage capacity issues,' the IT Office at Tufts University has responded to the subpoena in an RIAA case, Zomba v. Does 1-11, by submitting a report to the judge (PDF) explaining why it cannot cross-match IP addresses and MAC addresses, or identify users accurately. The IT office explained that the system identifies machines, not users; that some MAC addresses have multiple users; that only the Address Resolution Protocol system has even the potential to match IP addresses with MAC addresses, but that system could not do so accurately. For reasons which are unclear, the IT department then suggested that the RIAA next time send them 'notices to preserve information,' in response to which they would preserve, rather than overwrite, the DHCP data, for the RIAA's forensic benefit."
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And if they do that, and have someone sympathetic to the RIAA, say, oh, like me....I'd report them for obstruction and helping their students break the law.
While DHCP isn't a permanent thing, we ALL know it's based on lease duration. Most sane places use a lease duration of 3 days. I'm sure the RIAA folks will bring that up.
Hate to tell ya - esp at a university - systems are used regularly. You have to be gone a while for your lease to expire and to get a new IP.
Hum, not if your name is Sir Roy Meadow you don't. You just get to make up junk statistics out of your head with no evidence what so ever to justify them, or any formal qualifications in statistics.
As a result of your grossly negligent and misleading expert witness to the court innocent parents end up serving jail time for the deaths of their children.
Come back to you none whatsoever, despite the fact you are an evil shit who has ruined lives on your pet theories that are little more than junk science and deserve to spend the rest of your life in jail.
Get back to me when "expert" witnesses are punished for giving false ans misleading evidence.
Small world. I was that IS guy. After I finished up, I went to the bathroom and thought about you as I jacked off and played with my asshole. Do you want to get together sometime?
And the jew fag in RIAA will proceed to take control of the internet for their grand master.
Simply trash the modem, buy a surfboard, call the cable company and say "hay guys, new modem, update MAC entry plz."