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You've missed: 3. Be forced to admit in court that there is no source code and the defendants were identified by the NSA illegally spying, storing and analysin
by junto 10y ago
You've missed:
3. Be forced to admit in court that there is no source code and the defendants were identified by the NSA illegally spying, storing and analysing the internet traffic of all US citizens. The NSA hands the IP addresses to the FBI and the FBI fabricate the idea of "source code" as parallel construction in order to hide the NSA's activities.
- digler999 10y agoor 4 (perhaps the most benevolent possibility): They'd rather use the fear of the unknown as a bigger deterrent against further pursuit of CP than getting a handful of convictions. People who are involved now or thinking about it may stop or never get involved at all if there's > 0% probability that the feds are holding on to a working 'sploit.