https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=billtothHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:28:36 +0000Oh sure! I'm an IP litigator, so a lot of what I do entails investigating and explaining how technology (usually implemented in source code) works. We have forensic engineers that do a lot of that work, but it's important to have some lawyers on the team who know to ask the right questions to battle test their own experts' conclusions, cross examine the other side, and turn it into a story for non technical audiences like judges and juries.

]]>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:15:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302674billtothhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302674https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302674I'm the referenced Bill Toth. Just thought I'd mention the funny fact that in private practice I've actually argued about the significance of database schema (less for security reasons, more for analyzing the outputs of the database).

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