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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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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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Don’t deploy the software It’s one thing being a developer but it’s another thing being an admin or dev op person of a platform
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He participated in trusted setup ceremony for sure. Also this may be European law overreach thing. TC founder lives in USA. Haven’t heard anything happening to him.
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twitter.com/CoinDesk/statu Being imprisoned for 90 days without being charged with any specific crime.
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BREAKING: Alexey Pertsev, a coder arrested in Amsterdam for contributing to the Tornado Cash protocol, must stay in jail for 90 days pending trial, a Dutch judge ruled Wednesday. @jackschickler reports. trib.al/d8qKboR
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