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Re:US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack by cracker_jacks on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:07AM (#27103181)
You're assuming the US and other government are not using cryptocurrencies for their own covert transactions.
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Re:US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack by rcMgD2BwE72F on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:54AM (#27104340)
So what? Many governments have nuclear weapons arsenals but they don't make it legal for everyone to buy or manufacture atomic bombs.
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Re:US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack by kingsuper20 on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:05AM (#27106084)
I would expect that the drug production and export business is a more apt analogy.
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