Years later, you are prosecuted under this law because it turns out he had a hardware wallet in that box.
That's the problem, and it doesn't matter if you think it's not something that is likely.
Truth of the matter is, you committed no crime. This law would be the crime.
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I've been slow banned. Apparently HN has detected my opinions are not sufficiently marxist. I know how this goes. I was once shadow banned here for relating how I had met Grace Hopper. Another time for merely linking to a PDF of a scientific paper in response to someone elses scientific claim. (over 10 years that's about how many times I've tried to give this site another chance... this was the third one, and I'm done now. Thinking is not tolerated here, clearly.)
It was nice being on HN for awhile... but of course, the anti-intellectual snowflakes who run this site cannot abide actual critical thinking.
A shame, this could be a good site if discussions were allowed, instead it is a filter bubble of only one ideological viewpoint.
The bay area is quickly losing creditability-- as you advocate for "net neutrality" (which contains government censorship powers) on the argument that without it we will get government censorship, yet twitter and facebook and google are full scale censoring any viewpoint other than hard core militant marxist SJW... not to mention, HN does this as well. You guys reject thinking and the concept of diversity while justifying your sexism, racism and general bigotry with the #diversity hash tag.
The thing is, you know you're hypocrites, but instead of learning or thinking you just make your wall 10 feet higher.
By the way 850 points of karma proves I'm a good contributor here.... but one moderator disagrees with me and they take arbitrary action, without cause, without warning and without justification.
Don't ever pretend like you believe in the rule of law, you're criminals under your own rules!
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So to respond to the guy below:
These "laws" (which are unconstitutional, by the way) make a mockery of the rule of law. They erode our rights until we are purely at the mercy of the whim of tyrants. You assume the rule of law is there to protect you and you would have recourse, but you're wrong. There are many examples similar to your buried gold one-- people having their life savings simply stolen by the government under asset forfeiture, or going to jail for "money laundering" etc when they did nothing actually criminal.