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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by lazyasciiart on Friday September 12, 2025 @04:51PM (#45226618)
Criminals use privacy protection that is not illegal too.
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by AnthonyMouse on Friday September 12, 2025 @06:13PM (#45227345)
Indeed, criminals use things like HTTPS and ad blockers and lock the doors to their cars and homes. But so does everybody else?
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by lazyasciiart on Friday September 12, 2025 @09:31PM (#45228544)
Yes. I am disagreeing with your assumption that all "libertarian minded tech" must be illegal and only used by criminals. VPNs, Signal, ...
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by yujzgzc on Saturday September 13, 2025 @10:23AM (#45232302)
Using HTTPS to check Gmail and send messages isn't what I'd call libertarian tech. You're still communicating everything in cleartext to Google, whoever you're emailing with, and whoever subpoenas Google or the other provider.
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