Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash

Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by once_inc on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:54AM (#32437101)

Building a mixing service that allows people to buy stuff without their employers being able to track it is a legitimate, non-trivial reason.

These mixers are privacy enhancers. Privacy is a general term, and doesn't have to relate to evading the government. If you don't want your employer to know you've bought an NFT from your company's direct competitor, that is a privacy request too.

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by threeseed on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:02AM (#32437190)

Except that privacy is not some human right enshrined in law that usurps other laws.

If you facilitate money laundering that is still a crime even if the intent was for legitimate reasons like privacy.

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by once_inc on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @04:02PM (#32488071)

Article 12 of the United Nations's Universal Declaration of Human Rights [0] would like a word.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma....

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by diogenes1 on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:03AM (#32437931)

so when are we arresting engineers who built roads and trucks that were used for money laundering?

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by Vespasian on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:25PM (#32442900)

At least 2013 put probably for much longer.

https://www.wired.com/2013/03/alfred-anaya/

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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by jiriknesl on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:00AM (#32439634)

Well, maybe we should start lobbying to make it so.

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