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Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash (www.patrick-breyer.de)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by grandma@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 81 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Looks like development of such things will have to start happening on the dark web. What a ridiculous conviction.

In its judgement, the court accused him of an “ideology of maximum privacy.”

What the fuck is this kind of reasoning? Is privacy illegal now?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Oops I'm a privacy maximalist now, I didn't even know. Time to privacymaxx this removed up !!

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damn, even your slurs get maximum privacy.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can't say removed ?? That's removed removed !!!

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Just wait until th

[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Some famous ex felon and computer hacker named Kevin Mitnick wrote some books about privacy maxing, you might want to read a few of them. I guess he's still a felon, he just served his sentence and is no longer in prison. He did legit steal some people's identity and commit wire fraud.

[–] elltee@lemmy.one 1 points 6 months ago

Not a felon anymore. He died.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

privlets don't stand a chance

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Privacy maximums end up in supermax