Here's a legal technicality of which I was not aware and that will assuredly boggle the minds of my techie friends: courts presume that computer systems are reliable and if a defendant wants to argue otherwise it's on them to prove it.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-on-computer-evidence-to-avoid-horizon-repeat-ministers-urged
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