Conviction of Tornado Cash programmer: Privacy is not a crime!
www.patrick-breyer.deOn Tuesday a Dutch court sentenced the programmer Alexey Pertsev to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of money laundering because the "Tornado Cash" software he developed enables criminals to carry out completely anonymous and untraceable crypto transactions (so-called "crypto mixer")
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Looks like development of such things will have to start happening on the dark web. What a ridiculous conviction.
What the fuck is this kind of reasoning? Is privacy illegal now?
Anti Commercial-AI license
Privacy maximums end up in supermax
Oops I’m a privacy maximalist now, I didn’t even know. Time to privacymaxx this removed up !!
privlets don’t stand a chance
Damn, even your slurs get maximum privacy.
I can’t say removed ?? That’s removed removed !!!
Just wait until th
Some famous ex felon and computer hacker named Kevin Mitnick wrote some books about privacy maxing, you might want to read a few of them. I guess he’s still a felon, he just served his sentence and is no longer in prison. He did legit steal some people’s identity and commit wire fraud.
Not a felon anymore. He died.