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by DarkWiiPlayer 2878 days ago
The system isn't fundamentally flawed though. The problem starts when it's abused. When people are locked away regardless of whether or not there is any probability of them leaving the country or otherwise "disappearing" before their trial. Someone who has a family most likely won't do that, and there's no reason for them to go to prison until they have been proven guilty of a crime.
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There is one radical viewpoint that I believe holds for the law and computer security practices: if it is abusable it is fundamentally flawed. To give a deliberately extreme example imagine a law that gave the accusser fifty percent of the assets of a terrorist and the prosecutor the other fifty percent with no downsides for a false accusation. Fundamentally there is no way that said law wouldn't be abused for profit and make a complete hash out of justice.