[Cryptography] Sky Global Indictment, March 12, 2021

[Amarendra Godbole]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:17 PM Nabil Alsharif
<blit32 at circuitsofimagination.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/15/21 2:27 PM, Steve Furlong wrote:
>
> > And it seems that the authorities don't much care whether the operator
> > is doing something illegal or not, they will stop it, as the users are
> > doing illegal and bad things.
>
> Could there be a Fourteenth Amendment defense in the US? Telephone companies, UPS, and the US Postal Service are all used for illegal purposes but the federal government has never shut down the USPS and arrested the Postmaster General. "Equal protection under the law" seems to be missing.
>
> To start thing off: I AM _NOT_ A LAWYER
>
> In general such a defense in the US would require the company reasonably not know that its services are being used for illicit activity and the company make an effort to stop and prevent the use of its services for illegal activity. If you are marketing your product as a way to avoid law enforcement, or if you know that a client us using your product for illegal activity without reporting or at least blocking that client you don't have much of a defense.
[...]

By this reasoning, firearms manufacturers have no defense either. Or
am I misunderstanding what you are trying to say?

Thanks.


-Amarendra