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> Good luck making it a crime to install program. It is already a crime to passively posses certain combinations of bits (i.e. that directly or indirectly [zip
by xtracto 5y ago
> Good luck making it a crime to install program.
It is already a crime to passively posses certain combinations of bits (i.e. that directly or indirectly [zip, truecrypt] represent a child porn image).
It has been made illegal to possess the implementation of a mathematical function (i.e. Kerberos being a "Auxiliary Military Equipment"). It will be pretty trivial for the government to make it ilegal to download, posses or install a program (e.g that interacts in some way with the Bitcoin network).