“The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.”
The vendor’s defense of its software is that nobody could ever read it. Then it wanted a $1m penalty clause before the defense could look. A review of STRmix found 13 coding errors that touched 60 criminal cases. Prosecutors put a man on trial with code nobody could check. A trade secret should never outrank a defendant’s right to see the evidence.