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I can see the lawyers’ point. Any old checksum is good enough for spotting random data corruption. If you do happen to have a crooked lawyer who is submitting tampered evidence then you would hope that there are better systems in place to weed out this ethical corruption.

For instance: law school training to strengthen ethics, well known punishments to act as a deterrent, hiring processes to filter out unscrupulous actors, and whistleblower protections to encourage and reward vigilance.

It’s not an opinion that adheres to the cynical zeitgeist, but in my experience most members of this profession are extremely trustworthy. I’m sure they dislike the stereotype of lawyer=rotter just as much as hackers are tired of being typecast as Newman… sorry, Dennis from Jurassic Park!