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Submission + - Jury verdict of $23.2 million for wrongful death based on Gmail server evidence (andrewwatters.com)

Submitted by wattersa
wattersa writes: In 2022, I wrote here about a complex missing person case, which was partially solved by a Google subpoena that showed the suspect was logged into the victim's Gmail account and sent a fake "proof of life" email from her account at the hotel where he was staying alone after killing her.

The case finally went to trial in July 2025, where I testified about the investigation along with an expert witness on computer networking. The jury took three hours to returned a verdict against the victim's husband for wrongful death in the amount of $23.2 million, with a special finding that he caused the death of his wife. The defendant is a successful mechanical engineer at an energy company, but is walking as a free man because he is Canadian and no one can prosecute him in the U.S., since Taiwan and the U.S. don't have extradition with each other. It was an interesting case and I look forward to using it as a model in other missing person cases.

Comment Re:"risk creating" (Score 1) 74

by phantomfive (#65530552) Attached to: 'Microsoft's Constant Layoffs Risk Creating a Culture of Fear'

From what I have read and heard anecdotally from others, what you are describing is not a one-off. There are several businesses that take this approach, and (from what I gather) it tends to be most popular in sales departments.

It's called Stack Ranking and it causes problems when people need to cooperate (like on programming teams), because people won't cooperate, they'll backstab each other. It's entirely counterproductive.

It works ok on sales teams when salespeople operate independently of each other. (ie, the more they work together, the less it works).

Comment Re:What legal action can you take? (Score 1) 80

by phantomfive (#65530542) Attached to: News Publishers Take Paywall-Blocker 12ft.io Offline

None of which are defined with the authority of the copyright owner.

LOL no doubt that will hold up in court. The law doesn't say it has to be defined with the authority of the copyright owner.

The part about authority means that even if you manage to break the copy protection (which you have by switching your user agent), if you do that without authorization, then you've broken the law.

Again, this is one of the problems with the DMCA.

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