Failure of bank's proof

Failure of bank's proof

Posted Feb 28, 2003 17:18 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Full disclosure and the banking industry: Burden of proof must be on bank by dwheeler
Parent article: Full disclosure and the banking industry

Even when the bank has the burden of proof, things are not so rosy for the victim^U customer.

Some years ago (a decade and a half, more or less?) a bank had a thief dead to rights---including the photo from the surveillance camera. Problem? The guy in the photo was innocent. It seems whoever set the timestamp on the camera blew it, and even though the fraud occurred at (say) 9:27, the frame stamped `9:27' had been taken at an entirely different time. I'll leave it to the reader to envision what the poor guy went through to disprove the `proof'.

I almost certainly saw this in the Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems mailing list (a sobering read if ever there was one), but I just as certainly can't find the combination of search words which will extract it from their archives.

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