This clip is just under an hour long. This happened in the US.
Any links to textual articles discussing the case or the background to it?
No, I found it myself on YouTube. A couple of average guys wrote the opensource software to make bitcoin transactions completely private and secure from any snooping or identity discovering. Even the FBI couldn’t find or track the transactions. So the FBI ruins their lives. The constitution doesn’t help you when they want to take you down. These guys weren’t even making money, just letting others use their software for free.
When you are Microsoft, anyone can use your spreadsheet program to commit crimes, and Microsoft knows that some people are doing just that. But no one convicts Microsoft of conspiracy. When you are the little guy who writes software to give users privacy, a completely standard applies. A large amount of exculpatory evidence never made it before the jury.
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This is why I like to use a Librem 5. The Librem 5 doesn’t actually protect our freedoms from the government and we know because otherwise everyone at Purism would go to jail for unjust reasons, but it also doesn’t work so it makes a statement that something is wrong in society.
If it came out tomorrow that the Librem 5 was running Android with 12 GB of ram and the reason it’s so slow is that everything we think it does on 3 GB of RAM is happening in an emulator, I’d still like it because it lets us live in denial about how bad things really are.