the court accused him of an “ideology of maximum privacy.”
In what twisted fucked up crazy world is that a bad thing?
I hate this timeline…
If you read the verdict it says: maximum privacy combined with optimal obfuscation techniques. This implies that the sole role of the software is money laundering. The striving for privacy itself is not in question.
Free software can be used for what every you want to use it for.
I do not disturb that in any way, just clarified the verdict from Dutch
If you guys do want to get into crypto to buy certain…things, though if ill advise it, I’d recommend Monero not stuff like Bitcoin.
By this logic DARPA should be put on trial for creating TOR
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.
Dont give them any ideas.
Too late
Evil privacy maximalists !
That would be the story if a lifetime
please don’t jinx it :(
Oh… We are in THAT timeline.
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.
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Oops I’m a privacy maximalist now, I didn’t even know. Time to privacymaxx this removed up !!
Damn, even your slurs get maximum privacy.
I can’t say removed ?? That’s removed removed !!!
Just wait until th
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.
Not a felon anymore. He died.
privlets don’t stand a chance
Privacy maximums end up in supermax
Absolutely disgusting. Privacy is a right!
Due to its mode of operation, the court considered the software to be “specifically intended for criminals”
Crime is an action a state doesn’t like, not necessarily wrong or evil, but serves interests other than the state. If the state has to authorize everything, then the state is favoring dominance over governance.
When the state has to monitor all transactions it is tyranny.
The state is just the abstraction of the collective will of the governed, if the Dutch people have determined this is a crime against their society, then it is.
The state holds a monopoly on violence, another monopoly isn’t a stretch.
That’s really only in theory. I don’t think there’s any country where the government does what the polis wants in every instance.
For an entity hat already has monopoly over violence, how difficult is it to claim monopoly over the collective will?
What a fantasy world you live in. Must be nice. In truth, the state is a gang of thugs and parasites. Has nothing to do with the collective will of the people, a concept which doesn’t exist in reality.
Hopefully, not all is lost. He has appealed and hopefully a greater authority will overturn this ruling.
Where could I follow up on this story?
This article was posted by a MEP of the pirate party. You can follow him on mastodon.
So they throw vendors of knives in jail too?
How is that a privacy tool?
I think you meant vendors of safes.
Same idea
And vendors of locks.
No, but they throw vendors of screwdrivers in jail too.
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That is absolutely crazy. I wish the strength to go through that for Alexey Pertsev!
- Dutch court convicts engieneer, not Dutch engieneer gets convicted.
- I wouldn’t be surprised if Dutch court wants to say that he should have stayed in Russia and supported Putin’s war.
Dutch court convicts engieneer, not Dutch engieneer gets convicted.
Honest question, what do you mean by this? What’s the difference really?
Citizenship.
I see, thanks.
Sure.
Here's your I seeal.
Updated, my bad.
Thank fuck for the PirateParty!🏴☠️
Anti Commercial AI thingy
About the licence, how are you going to prove that your data was indeed used in training a Model ?
My best guess for the hopeful outcome is the ai starts tacking on the license magic words at the end of things it says… But ultimately it feels like a digital version of sovereign citizens to me.
I see it as a social signifier more than anything else.
It’s not enforceable in any way, it’s just virtue signaling. Lemmy itself is a privacy dumpsterfire. GDPR compliance is literally impossible.
How would I prove it? I don’t know. Do I think it will work? Probably not. But if I have the license someone might find it when a LLM accidentally reveals that it was trained with data that is under that license, and maybe the EU does something about it. Maybe the Pirate party will make the EU do something about it? Who knows? But they are the only ones I see that are actively trying to protect all of us an our right to privacy, and for that they have my vote! 🏴☠️🇪🇺
Anti Commercial AI thingy
This is a good question but I would just like to point out that 15 years ago nobody would have predicted that the questions we were asking and answering on stackoverflow would be used to train models (and that open source would have it’s license violated so brazenly) and that if you tried to delete your contributions because you didn’t want them to be used to train models you would get banned from the site, so even though adding a license to your comments might be meaningless, it might also be a powerful tool down the line. You never know how it’ll go.
SO comments are already CC-BY licensed (granted not -NC licensed, but still), but it doesn’t seem to have helped much.
This happens with cash too. If you take in a bunch of cash, you have a duty to know what it’s from so that you’re not facilitating terrorism or crime or subverting sanctions. In fact, of you handle cash or finance, you generally have to take training on these laws every year.
This thing is the definition of money laundering and was known for exactly those problems.
There are reasons to use this service that are completely legal. They should sentence the people laundering money, not the people providing privacy tools that happen to be misused.
There’s no reason people using tornado wouldn’t have to disclose their sources to the authorities, same as cash.
But it does protect them from malicious actors.
I don’t think you understand. Banks (or anyone who accepts large amounts of money) has a duty to have some idea of where that money comes from. There are anti money laundering laws.
Go open a bank account right now and try to deposit a briefcase full of $50,000 in cash and see what happens. You might, maybe be able to do it, but there will absolutely be questions.
We know what the rules are dude, we are saying they’re wrong.
I think it will go to my quotes collection. “We know what the rules are, we are saying they’re wrong”.
That doesn’t apply to small amounts below $10k
But, again, the same applies. I deposit btc or cash into a bank, even $50k, then I disclose its source to the authorities, with the paperwork. But by using a privacy service, I can comply with the law and protect myself from malicious actors
Go open a bank account right now and try to deposit a briefcase full of $50,000
I’ve done this. They ask you for the paperwork documenting the source of the funds. Just follow the process. It doesn’t matter if its fiat or crypto.
But in essence, they are punishing this guy for writing code. And at least in the United States, code is considered speech. And this is a very bad precedent. I know that this is a Dutch court, but still that is not a good thing.
It’s continental system. Precedents don’t have as much power as in English system. And Netherlands are in ECHR jurisdiction, so it’s likely to be
overturnedfound contradicting European Convention on Human Rights.He can write the code. He can release the source. Nothing is illegal until he takes currency.
And see, there’s where the problem comes in. He never actually took the currency from the smart contract itself. In fact, it is still online and being used as of this day. And he is getting none of the currency just like he got none of the currency before. What they are going after him for is creating a front-end user interface to access the contract. I believe they did take a fee from that user interface since it made it simpler than interacting with the contract directly. The problem is that they are saying that by taking fees from that user interface, he is money laundering, but not everybody who used that user interface was using it for money laundering. A famous example is the creator of Ethereum used it to donate to Ukraine.
He’s taking a fee in order to launder your money.
Even had the front end website not been running, that money would have still been laundered. I heard an explanation of it earlier that was saying something to the effect of, imagine a door at the edge of a field. There is no walls, there is no nothing else, just a door at the edge of a field. Anybody can come into that field and use it whenever they wish. Putting a lock on the door will not keep people out of the field. They can just walk in wherever the door isn’t.
I feel like this would be better if the field was surrounded by a 1 foot moat, and there was a bridge.
It would take some amount of effort to step over the moat and not trip, vs just walking over the bridge.
The bridge has a small toll to help maintain it.
But bridge or no bridge you’re getting into the field.
Lol, i like it
Yes, we agree. It’s still a bunch of bullshit.
money laundering is a big bad no-no word that THEY have stigmatized (conditional brainwashing) in order to get every day people to SUPPORT their regime of THEFT and CONTROL.
“You are trying to keep your money to yourself and stop us from seeing it so that we can’t steal some of it and punish you for using it how you like??? You’re a MONEY LAUNDERER. Money laundering Money laundering Money laundering”
When you control money, you control minds, livelihoods, and monopolize fear itself.
its not the actual money laundering they object to.
it’s that they didn’t get a cut.
I spotted the libertarian in the room, LOL. Although I completely agree, so I’m right with you, brother.
Same as CP used against encryption.
Official link to ruling (in Dutch): https://deeplink.rechtspraak.nl/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:RBOBR:2024:2069
Snapshot of translation: https://archive.ph/JKdbV
Wasn’t the arrest over a year ago? How much time is left on the sentence?
This is terrible, but 5 years is pretty tolerable. Assange is in locked up for being a journalist and faces life in tortuous conditions.
Also, write your MEP and vote pirate party.
Assange isn’t merely a journalist. He collobarated with russian security services and was on their payroll during his work on their “RT” initiative.
Please stop with the C.I.A. talking points. Have some self awareness. All of this McCarthy red scare shit is embarrassing.
Horseapples. Why I suddenly see a lot of out of touch with reality statements lately?
