[Cryptography] Privacy, Code, and the Future

[John Levine]

It appears that Andrew Lee <andrew at joseon.com> said:
>John,
>
>You're making a dangerous assumption here, that people who want privacy are likely committing crimes, and that those who build or buy tools enabling privacy
>are complicit.

When the "privacy" involves hiding money, it's a quite reasonable assumption.

You don't have to like it, but that's how it's been for a long time.

>If we follow that logic, everyone who's ever made or sold anything that could be misused, from computers, to web browsers, to encryption itself, should be in jail.

Sorry, but saying that over and over again doesn't make it true.

Having been involved in some actual lawmaking, I can assure you that slippery slope arguments
are unpersuasive.  Judges have no trouble telling the difference between a web browser and
a crypto mixer.

R's,
John