Daniel Micay on Twitter: "@letoams @bcrypt Money laundering requires trying to hide the proceeds of a crime. Keeping your financial transactions private is not itself a crime and neither is publishing software for it." / Twitter

if true, this thread has scary implications for anyone who contributes to open source privacy software. basically you can be arrested if criminals use it and the authorities can’t figure out who else to arrest.

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Petr Korolev

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Aug 19

4/ That triggered investigations in the USA and Europe. And it appears that the investigators had no idea how to deal with the situation, no idea how open-source software development works, and just hit a developer with numerous commits and a real name on GitHub.

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There is a difference between privacy software and money laundry software. Tornado Cash had no other real purpose. It wasn’t like mixmaster for email privacy

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Money laundering requires trying to hide the proceeds of a crime. Keeping your financial transactions private is not itself a crime and neither is publishing software for it.

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