So if someone works on software for cars and they’re used to run people over the responsibility is on them? Seems like a terrible way to go about it.
With that perspective tim berners lee has aided so much terrorism, money laundering, and blackmail by coding the world wide web. Or Protonmail coders or apple cosers for making end to end encryption simple to use
If the software is specifically designed to make it easier to run people over and get away with it, then yes. And that is what we are talking about here… this isn’t the Linux kernel or some general purpose software, but a software specifically designed to obfuscate money flows.
ok then does that apply to software that makes it easier to obfuscate communication? people can use it to plot terror attacks, or send grandmas secret recipe. people can use tornado cash for money laundering, or for hiding how much money you have and where your spending it from an abusive ex or authoritarian government who might target you for paying for an abortion
The vital difference here is that with near 100% certainty the vast majority of the users of Tornado Cash used it for illegal purposes, while most encrypted messengers are used for 99% legal use.
And as I said elsewhere, nearly all the good uses of a anonymous digital money can be achieved with a system that protects the anonymity of the individual buyer only. Making the seller anonymous as well is counter productive.
To be honest I am not a big fan of Tor either, but I can give it the benefit of doubt that it does have legitimate use-cases. For this tornado cash I have a really hard time imagining there to be real non-criminal use-cases that could not be done differently better.
So if someone works on software for cars and they’re used to run people over the responsibility is on them? Seems like a terrible way to go about it.
With that perspective tim berners lee has aided so much terrorism, money laundering, and blackmail by coding the world wide web. Or Protonmail coders or apple cosers for making end to end encryption simple to use
If the software is specifically designed to make it easier to run people over and get away with it, then yes. And that is what we are talking about here… this isn’t the Linux kernel or some general purpose software, but a software specifically designed to obfuscate money flows.
ok then does that apply to software that makes it easier to obfuscate communication? people can use it to plot terror attacks, or send grandmas secret recipe. people can use tornado cash for money laundering, or for hiding how much money you have and where your spending it from an abusive ex or authoritarian government who might target you for paying for an abortion
As usual it depends :)
The vital difference here is that with near 100% certainty the vast majority of the users of Tornado Cash used it for illegal purposes, while most encrypted messengers are used for 99% legal use.
And as I said elsewhere, nearly all the good uses of a anonymous digital money can be achieved with a system that protects the anonymity of the individual buyer only. Making the seller anonymous as well is counter productive.
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To be honest I am not a big fan of Tor either, but I can give it the benefit of doubt that it does have legitimate use-cases. For this tornado cash I have a really hard time imagining there to be real non-criminal use-cases that could not be done differently better.