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Am I supposed to feel terrible for people who got caught up in a terrorism scheme because they worked on encryption technology but maybe didn't actually blow up any buildings? Because that's not going to happen. Anyone with a brain knew that encryption is primarily used to plan terrorist attacks, and they also had to know that governments are not fond of terrorist attacks. Leopards eat faces all the time.

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You know, the very website you are viewing uses encryption.

He's trying to be sarcastic but failing at it. The primary focus of creating encryption was to keep messages secret from military enemies. It was later used for non-military purposes. The primary focus of the creation of Tornado Cash was to facilitate money laundering. Privacy was the public justification for its existence, but not why it exists.

> The primary focus of the creation of Tornado Cash was to facilitate money laundering

This is a GIGANTIC claim that you're going to have to evidence. Alexey Pertsev, Roman Semenov, and Roman Storm all studied STEM subjects at university, spent years working as pentesters, QAs, SWEs etc, as some sort of long-con to create a money laundering platform? What a totally absurd thing to say, and is quite frankly insulting to the entirety of this site.

Not as much of a dunk as you think. For some reason we take it for granted that all electronic financial activity must be logged and monitored. Things could have easily gone the same for all electronic communication, and the people arguing against encryption used the same exact arguments as the people arguing against financial privacy in this thread. That is what my sarcastic comment, and your comment illustrate.

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