Reply to post: Re: So tomorrow Signal, Telegram?

US govt indicted me because I make privacy tools, says crypto-chat app CEO accused of helping drug smugglers

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WTF?

Re: So tomorrow Signal, Telegram?

So how does one in fact determine that the potential buyer is not a drug dealer before the sale is made? Is there a clearing house of some sort to verify?

Or, perhaps, does the concept of mens rea come in to play where even if the fact comes out later on that you inadvertently sold something to a criminal, you are not guilty of any crime since you did not knowingly do so?

I sincerely hope we have not reached the point where everyone must be surveilled everywhere since everyone is assumed to be a criminal, and therefore any privacy-enhancing technology is unsafe to sell.

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