Is there precedent for that holding in court? Saying something like "I put this unusual string in my software & it is also in theirs" seems pretty useless from a legal perspective.
>In cartography, a trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential plagiarists of the map
There's a section on legal issues in the article
What evidence do you expect would be used for copying besides shared content?
Heck, criminal jury convictions, despite the much higher standard of proof, very often don’t have “video of the act being committed” kind of evidence.
The difference is I didn't choose my fingerprints nor did the police. It's also really, really hard to get rid of them OR to have someone else with the same fingerprints as mine.
That said, faking them is easier than you might think. https://web.mit.edu/6.857/OldStuff/Fall03/ref/gummy-slides.p...
Incidentally the idea of fingerprinting really was popularized by Mark Twain: https://www.courthousenews.com/mark-twains-fingerprints/
It is that you can create fingerprint evidence in normal interactions with fingerprint systems in ways that leave no other evidence, and are unlikely to draw scrutiny from nearby humans.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Franklin_Computer_Corp.