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Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash
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this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
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By this logic DARPA should be put on trial for creating TOR
By this logic every locksmith should be put on trial for making locks, every manufacturer of vaults and safes, every lumber company for making wood used in fences, every costume designer for making halloween masks, every post office for renting PO boxes... etc.
Evil privacy maximalists !
Dont give them any ideas.
Too late
That would be the story if a lifetime
please don't jinx it :(
Oh... We are in THAT timeline.
what about computers and the internet? those were created and used for bad too. also gps and weather satellites.
fun fact: the first digital computer was invented for the explicit purpose of calculating artillery firing tables for the army during the war. what it actually ended up getting used for on its first program, was studying global thermonuclear war.