US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation

Re:US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea b... by adfhdfhdryheryh on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:14PM (#31019688)

This might qualify as high treason, as defined in the Constitution rather as used as an insult. The U.S. and North Korea are still technically at war, and this act was definitely aiding the North Korean government.

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Re:US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea b... by SllX on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:04AM (#31023584)

I’m not sure we really are. The perpetual warfare in the absence of a treaty doesn’t really seem to hold water in a world where South Korea has opened factories in North Korea or the PRC and ROC openly trade.

That said, even if it does qualify, that doesn’t seem to be the charge pursued by the Prosecutors so moot.

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