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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by jiggawatts on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:50AM (#32439494)
Or arresting Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, or Leonard Adleman for helping criminals hide their communications from law enforcement.
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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by closeparen on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:21PM (#32445139)
The difference is lawmakers have regulated money service businesses and have not regulated cryptography. If they had regulated cryptography, then yes making RSA available to the public could be a crime.
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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by diogenes1 on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:11PM (#32441355)
this right here, is the crux of the argument
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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by vorpalhex on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:46PM (#32442452)
If they were getting a cut from whenever illegal activities were done.. maybe.
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Re:Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash by WFHRenaissance on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:01PM (#32442628)
You do know RSA is a company too, right? What are the odds that RSA SecurID has been used by bad actors before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Security

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