Hiya NotMyself, yes, BN's testimony is very frustrating, whatever his computer expertise is, it doesn't seem to be in the area of what he was charged with doing or testifying to, he wasn't apprised of the Immunize feature of Spybot so had no idea of its capabilities, and apparently neither of his compadres knew anything about it either so that they could enlighten him prior to him sounding foolish and/or uninformed.
I haven't gotten to 'Mr. Smith's' testimony yet, I've been watching the videos in order so I don't have to do much 'Wait what?' backtracking, I'm up to the 12/11/14 hearing (court testimony last day before hearings began, Day 13 I think) - am I correct in presuming Mr. Smith's testimony is on the courtroom cameras the same as JA's was? I'd hate to have to go back over tweets from then to refresh my memory of whatever he said. It seems like the only programs these three used were freeware, for whatever the defense paid them you'd think they could afford some heavy duty, paid-for utilities.
My point about Spybot and the pics is, the mention before that Spybot was run at 1:44 p.m. on June 4th is the same time as one of the nude pics was timestamped, if Spybot had been manually accessed then the pic couldn't have been taken of JA's privates by T at the same time, but unless something gets brought up later about that occurrence all we have is an "access" file of Spybot appearing on 6/04/08 with no clarity if the program was manually used. I still doubt that Travis would have set up Spybot to run a scan beginning at 1:44 p.m. daily (too odd of a time) but I suppose it's possible it may have updated itself - did Spybot have that capability then, if you remember?
Hi Geevee;
Yes, I'm fairly certain that 'Pseudonym' testimony was in a FTR recording, like all the others - I think he wasn't shown, though - just the Judge and lawyers. I'm taking a look to see if I can pinpoint the day for you, haven't found it yet. I believe it was in the first part of January. I'm looking at Jan 8, 2015 (Day 19) now, and it looks like they're leading up to it, so I believe it's around that date.
ETA: found it! it's Day 19, #2 of 3, on CrimeTimeVids (aka David Lohr) you tube page.
It's been a while since I watched BN testimony, but my recollection is that he was talking about things he knew very little about, and most of what he said was based on what others told him, and he didn't seem to have a good understanding of that (despite his snarky attitude).
As far as I recall about Spybot, you could allow it to do auto updates, as well as auto scans. If you selected it at a given time, it would default to the current time, but you could change the time to something more convenient (like early morning, or late night).
So if Travis had set Spybot up at 1:44PM, and chose to auto update or scan say, every 24 hours (or whatever) - yes, as long as the computer was on, it could certainly have been non-user generated activity at that time.
I'm not at all certain that BN or Pseudonym's times were accurate, though.
In my opinion, Lonnie Dworkin (who was originally a defense witness), and the two Detectives were much more reliable, and used LE accepted software that would (or should) yeild comparable results, regardless of who used it.
There isn't anything wrong with using alternative programs, in ADDITION to acceped software, as long as the results can be proven to be accurate when compared to others. IOW, if you begin with A (the original drive), LE software shows B, and you analyze the data to arrive at C, you have to account for all differences between the data, and explain the differences. At a minimum, you would have to account for all data differences between A and C.
IMO, BN, and his "team' did not do that at all, but instead presented non verifiable times and activity that was not correct, nor did they prove it to be accurate. JMO
I hope that helps!
