Alleged Tornado Cash developer arrested in Amsterdam
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Tornado Cash has been linked to North Korean cybergangs

What do y’all think of this? Seems pretty terrible on its face

  • Arthur BesseA
    3·
    2 years ago

    if the developer was unaware of this risk, they were very naive

    Well, their security audit didn’t seem spot the risk…

    Seriously, though, are you condoning someone being arrested for publishing software?

      • Arthur BesseA
        1·
        2 years ago

        Would it change your opinion if he was paid for working on the software by the criminals?

        Yes, it would change my armchair not-a-lawyer-but-i-play-one-online legal opinion. If there is evidence that he was (knowingly) hired to write the software by people who were planning to violate laws using the software, then it is not as much of an open-and-shut first amendment case (assuming they’re planning to extradite him to the US…).

        It is currently unknown and given the nature of the software involved might never be known

        Indeed. Which is why your assessment of his arrest should not be based on the assumption that that is what happened.