Quantitative Plausibility of the Trojan Horse Defence against Possession of Child Pornography
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A new complexity-based metric has been developed to enable the relative plausibility of competing explanations for the existence of uncontested evidence to be determined quantitatively. This metric has been applied to the case of the Trojan horse defence against the possession of child pornography. Our results demonstrate that the Trojan horse defence in this case cannot be plausibly sustained, unless the defendant’s computer was unprotected against malware.
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