If you are a user or developer of non-custodial privacy software, you should be extremely fucking angry right now.
A Texas court has dismissed a lawsuit against Pam Bondi, in which a developer laid out that the US Government's prosecution of non-custodial privacy devs was keeping him from publishing his own non-custodial privacy software, directly affecting his freedom of speech.
The court today found that this is not true, claiming that the developer is not at risk of prosecution because "he says he just develops software," "he wouldn't knowingly transmit illicit proceeds," and "TODD BLANCHE ISSUED A MEMO PROMISING THAT DOJ WOULDNT PROSECUTE DEVELOPERS ANYMORE."
This is EXACTLY what Roman Storm was arguing: he just published code, he only learned of illicit proceeds after the fact, and Todd Blanche issued a memo promising to no longer prosecute people like him.
And what did the DOJ do? PROSECUTE HIM ANYWAY.
It is NOT SAFE for privacy developers in the US right now, and the courts made clear today that they have no intention of making it so.
A Texas court has dismissed a lawsuit against Pam Bondi, in which a developer laid out that the US Government's prosecution of non-custodial privacy devs was keeping him from publishing his own non-custodial privacy software, directly affecting his freedom of speech.
The court today found that this is not true, claiming that the developer is not at risk of prosecution because "he says he just develops software," "he wouldn't knowingly transmit illicit proceeds," and "TODD BLANCHE ISSUED A MEMO PROMISING THAT DOJ WOULDNT PROSECUTE DEVELOPERS ANYMORE."
This is EXACTLY what Roman Storm was arguing: he just published code, he only learned of illicit proceeds after the fact, and Todd Blanche issued a memo promising to no longer prosecute people like him.
And what did the DOJ do? PROSECUTE HIM ANYWAY.
It is NOT SAFE for privacy developers in the US right now, and the courts made clear today that they have no intention of making it so.
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