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1. it's just an idea of how to make a decentralized SR. 2. I doubt I'll be able to implement it entirely myself regardless. 3. even if I or someone else does,
by goshakkk 13y ago
1. it's just an idea of how to make a decentralized SR.
2. I doubt I'll be able to implement it entirely myself regardless.
3. even if I or someone else does, what is bad about it, exactly? It'll be just software. A set of Ruby/JS files. Everyone would be able to run a node so clearly punishing a mere guy who turned idea into reality, but who doesn't run the operations himself, won't be a feasible option.
- SamuelKillin 13y agoThat's very naive of you.
- Jgrubb 13y ago"punishing a mere guy who turned idea into reality, but who doesn't run the operations himself, won't be a feasible option" This is dangerously naive. This is exactly what "they" do, if only to brutally discourage anyone else from trying it.
- doorty 13y agoLive free. Don't let "them" scare you into acting out of fear.
- Jgrubb 13y agoI agree with you 100%. I just also think that to claim "oh, I just wrote this software, I can't get in trouble for anything" doesn't take into account either the technological illiteracy of most of the justice system, nor the current environment of what can qualify on the evening news as being a win for the War on Terror.
- JulianMorrison 13y agoName one example, please. Said example must include: * open source implementation released to the public * author did not directly do anything obviously illegal, or profit by anyone else doing it * overwhelming force under colour of law
- ephemeralgomi 13y agoYou weren't around for DeCSS, I guess?
- ChrisClark 13y agoThere was this guy: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/programmer-sentenced-to-death-in-iran-for-upload-software-55430 http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/programmer-sentenced-to... * He built some software to upload images to a web site. * A porn site then used it without his knowledge. * He was sentenced to death.
- JulianMorrison 13y ago* in Iran. Miss a detail, change the story.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoProtip: Don't live in Iran. /s
- pavel_lishin 13y agoIs your point that all of us live in the United States?
- xnxn 13y agoMore like change the goalposts. The example meets your criteria.
- VMG 13y agoForce them to declare war against crypto then.
- mahyarm 13y agoSo the Tor, Bitcoin, libOTR, pidgin/adium, encfs, luks, openssl, openssh, openvpn, truecrypt & recent PGP devs (not counting the crypto-as-muntions early days) fear this too? The ones that have been harassed in my memory is the Cryptocat dev and Winny. Don't mark your software as having a political purpose and more of a general tool and I think you'll have less harassment in your future.
- boi_v2 13y agoThere is nothing wrong with this, I guess government propaganda is really scaring some people. If it were like this arms manufacturing should be a crime and the billionaires behind those factories should be in jail, you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.
- saraid216 13y ago> you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round. Believe it or not, V for Vendetta is not actually a handbook on how to run a democracy.
- thenomad 13y agoOne could, however, argue that Thomas Jefferson had some valid points on democracies and the running therof. And it's him that V for Vendetta was riffing off: “A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!”
- goblin89 13y agoOn the other hand, a point could be made that it's totalitarian regimes where governments are afraid of their citizens (those in fear of losing their powers, especially illegitimately obtained, start suppressing freedoms and surveilling everyone).
- baddox 13y agoDemocracy is "rule by the people." You are not "the people," so you should fear democracy.
- saraid216 13y agoWhy is it that most HN politicos have nothing useful to say besides, "Be afraid"?
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- anon928338 13y agoI would discourage even titling the submission "Silk Road 2.0". I can't speak to the criminal side of things, but civil court judges have come up with theories that if another piece of software has been deemed 'illegal' and you try to attract users of that software to your software, then your software could be considered illegal. Again, it's apples to oranges, but you can see how the court's line of reasoning could go the same direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista_Records_LLC_v._Lime_Group_LLC#Inducement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista_Records_LLC_v._Lime_Grou...
- beedogs 13y agoYou seem to be assuming in point 3) that the government is rational about this kind of crap. History proves they're out of their minds when it comes to drugs and prosecution of any and everything related to them. They'd throw you in prison for as long as they possibly could just to "make a point".
- carleverett 13y agoThis is exactly the kind of comment that needs to have sources.
- beedogs 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Emery#2005_arrest_and_extradition_proceedings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Emery#2005_arrest_and_ext...