Reply #18: Ohdearlord ... NO! [View All]

Circumstantial evidence is used as evidence in building a chain of evidence in an attempt to establish proof. Circumstantial evidence, in and of itself, is never, has never, and will (hopefully) never be "proof" of anything.

Here's circumstantial evidence as proof, according to the logic you are abusing.

According to my logs, which I can reproduce for you if you like, someone pinged a UDP port on my system and 9:03pm (local). Since the time stamp on the message to which this is a response is 9:03pm(local), then we know you, personally, were online at 9:03pm. Therefore, you pinged my UDP port in an attempt to gain access to my system.

In the real world, there are two very clear things wrong with that logic and several small ones. But, I am using circumstantial evidence, and if such evidence is proof all by itself, then you are guilty.