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by beisner 3214 days ago
There could be a hash collision, which might be enough to provide reasonable doubt for a jury.
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The chances of a hash collision are drastically lower than the false positive rate of a DNA test, and US courts have accepted the latter for a long time.
No, I mean if they have the image files, they can look at the images. It would be irrelevant what the image hashes to.