Evidence is just stuff. It's not some magic object sprinkled with truth and certainty pixie dust.
The connection between a given explanation and any evidence is a probabilistic inference (Bayes Rule actually). You always have to weigh the likelihood of the evidence occurring due to other reasons, be it accident or fraud.
Considering that a number of folks with large UDID lists have stated they've found intersections, it seems the data itself is the real deal.
The only thing that's left is to debate the likelyhood of how they got it.
At the moment the burden is on the FBI. It'll take time to find the truth. Even if the FBI release was written in good faith, they're a large organization, and it takes time to figure out what's going on.
Yes, also if someone leaks 1 million people's private data onto the internet I'd think it would be FBI's responsibility to investigate how that happened.
The connection between a given explanation and any evidence is a probabilistic inference (Bayes Rule actually). You always have to weigh the likelihood of the evidence occurring due to other reasons, be it accident or fraud.
Considering that a number of folks with large UDID lists have stated they've found intersections, it seems the data itself is the real deal.
The only thing that's left is to debate the likelyhood of how they got it.
At the moment the burden is on the FBI. It'll take time to find the truth. Even if the FBI release was written in good faith, they're a large organization, and it takes time to figure out what's going on.