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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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ocdtrekkie
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@bcrypt
I think the problem here is crypto has led to a massive amount of harm by people who... at beast are ****ing clueless how damaging their actions can be. It's possible that Tornado Cash developers were too stupid to realize what they created... (cont.)
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...but significant terrorist and criminal operations have been funded by this. Blood is almost certainly on his hands. And as a profession we have to have some responsibility not to do harm.
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ocdtrekkie
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That's a rough one, though I would argue monetary assets are treated *very* differently in international law than... really anything else. Generally sending data doesn't require KYC/AML.
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