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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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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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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 87 points 6 months ago (4 children)

By this logic DARPA should be put on trial for creating TOR

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 45 points 6 months ago (2 children)

By this logic every locksmith should be put on trial for making locks, every manufacturer of vaults and safes, every lumber company for making wood used in fences, every costume designer for making halloween masks, every post office for renting PO boxes... etc.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

Evil privacy maximalists !

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dont give them any ideas.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Too late

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That would be the story if a lifetime

[–] myself@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

please don't jinx it :(

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Oh... We are in THAT timeline.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

what about computers and the internet? those were created and used for bad too. also gps and weather satellites.

fun fact: the first digital computer was invented for the explicit purpose of calculating artillery firing tables for the army during the war. what it actually ended up getting used for on its first program, was studying global thermonuclear war.