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grandma@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.ml ·
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Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash

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Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash

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grandma@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.ml ·
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Conviction of Tornado Cash programmer: Privacy is not a crime!
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On Tuesday a Dutch court sentenced the programmer Alexey Pertsev to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of money laundering because the "Tornado Cash" software he developed enables criminals to carry out completely anonymous and untraceable crypto transactions (so-called "crypto mixer")
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    How is that a privacy tool?

    I think you meant vendors of safes.

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      Same idea

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      And vendors of locks.

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