When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank

Re:When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank by splittist on Friday June 05, 2015 @05:10PM (#9668202)

So the offense is, essentially, not arranging your affairs in a way so as to leave them open to easy scrutiny by the state. With decades of precedent allowing such laws how can strong cryptography possibly be permissible?

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Re:When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank by maxerickson on Friday June 05, 2015 @05:24PM (#9668275)

No, the essence of the offense is to be aware of a certain type of scrutiny and arrange your affairs specifically to avoid it.

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Re:When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank by Zigurd on Saturday June 06, 2015 @10:10AM (#9670856)

Actually, some people here will argue that, in fact, the state HAS an inherent power to inspect anything at all. Math and physics be damned.

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Re:When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank by maxerickson on Saturday June 06, 2015 @10:46AM (#9670960)

I don't understand why that is an actually.

The financial reporting regulations surrounding structuring are pretty specific, it really isn't the sort of thing you would use as a salvo in a war to inspect everything.

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Re:When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank by Zigurd on Saturday June 06, 2015 @03:01PM (#9671823)

No, it isn't. But some people think the Hobbesian PoV means outlawing strong encryption is exactly what the government should do.

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