[sys_64738]

This is the problem with technology. In the old days the police were required to use detective work to solve crimes with supporting evidence. Nowadays they use brute force technology to find an alleged felon then use brute force techniques to take them down. Usually the latter is based on probabilities.

[JadeNB]

> This is the problem with technology. In the old days the police were required to use detective work to solve crimes with supporting evidence. Nowadays they use brute force technology to find an alleged felon then use brute force techniques to take them down. Usually the latter is based on probabilities.

I think that there were plenty of problems with the old approaches to policing, too. It was and remains the case that there's no need for detection if you can manage to pin the crime on a conveniently available candidate, whether or not that person did it; and pinning the crime on whoever you've got is greatly assisted by brute-force techniques that have nothing to do with technology.