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@bcrypt
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 🦇🔊
@skywinder
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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Oskar Ojala
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It seems that this could potentially be legally complicated, a lot depending on Dutch law. Running a full on anonymized service would likely violate laws, unclear what writing software would imply and what’s the specific suspected crime here
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Daniel Micay
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Tornado Cash is a smart contract which had approval for updates, etc. delegated to a community via a DAO. It's not a service they ran. The people running the code are Ethereum miners and people running other validating Ethereum nodes. The developers didn't host it as a service.
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