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2 years

Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash

www.patrick-breyer.de
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    Conviction of Tornado Cash programmer: Privacy is not a crime!
    www.patrick-breyer.de
    On 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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    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      2 years

      Looks like development of such things will have to start happening on the dark web. What a ridiculous conviction.

      In its judgement, the court accused him of an “ideology of maximum privacy.”

      What the fuck is this kind of reasoning? Is privacy illegal now?

      Anti Commercial-AI license

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
          2 years

          Oops I’m a privacy maximalist now, I didn’t even know. Time to privacymaxx this removed up !!

            • jonne@infosec.pub
              2 years

              Damn, even your slurs get maximum privacy.

                • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
                  2 years

                  I can’t say removed ?? That’s removed removed !!!

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