Fair enough. But the indictment reads as if they were knowingly profiting off of illegal transactions and we may be looking at the case where that line in the sand is drawn.
As a counter example, should the US government not try to stop the cartels from using Swiss banks for money laundering because some arbitrary contract was already in effect?
In other words: Monero might be getting some friends on the Fed's crypto blacklist over this case.
I think you're both ignoring one key factor here: intent.
If this was simple service for moving/spending money privately. Sure, probably nothing wrong then. But the indictment specifically states that they knew the service was being using by sanctioned entities and didn't try to prevent it. That's makes a big difference.
This is what I've been wondering. Does Fair Use apply here at all? Sure, the models were trained on copyrighted material. But wouldn't the generative part of the AI count as transformative?
A lot of people I've met that reverse malware for a living started out cracking copy protections. It's basically the same skill set. The old SnD forums had an entire section dedicated to it. They even had decompiled Stuxnet samples before anyone really knew what a Stuxnet was.
That entire scene is people just wanting to break protections for the challenge. Not necessarily just copy protections. The InfoSec, and RCE worlds in general, would not be where it is today if it wasn't for them cracking those old games and whatnot.
More specifically: All of the binaries are just Inno Setup files - even the proxy itself.
Which means it should be easy to wipe out with the next MSRT/Windows update. Considering unpacking Inno and decompiling that weird Pascal(?) scripting it uses has been a thing forever now (innounp). Meaning you can also fully reverse engineer this with a single CLI command and Notepad++ lol
Although this is super clever. I'll give them that.
I really do miss the days where candor was seen as a sign of respect. Now it's just seen as being contrarian or even insulting. All because you "ruined" their virtue-fueled dopamine drip.
It's not a genuine interaction, at all. It's a town hall full of shit posters, some of which you went to school with or just happen to be related to. There are literal families divided right now because Becky went full "nobody asked, stay off my profile" mode on her Uncle Steve. Which is just nuts.
Really makes me worry about where we'll be in 20-30 years, socially speaking.
I honestly don't get it either. Why does he even care about Russia at this point? They can't directly attack the satellites, as that would be an act of war against the United States and Russia isn't that stupid. They're heavily sanctioned and basically a dead market now that the Ruble has crashed. So there shouldn't be any business considerations.
Not to mention ITAR, which the entire constellation falls under.
I'm just dumbfounded why he gives them the time of day. Does he not know that he can ignore their emails or something?
It was started by the Navy way back in the '90s for secure communication online. Then the source was released like a year after being made public and development was funded by the EFF until the Tor Project itself was officially founded.
They still do (or did?) get grants from a few federal agencies though. But they had no strings attached. This is probably what you're thinking of.
Source: Hung out with a few Tor devs in Berlin a few years back. Including He Who Shall Not Be Named.
As a counter example, should the US government not try to stop the cartels from using Swiss banks for money laundering because some arbitrary contract was already in effect?
In other words: Monero might be getting some friends on the Fed's crypto blacklist over this case.