Virgil Griffith - Crypto Advocate and Educator Arrested at LAX from DPRK

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On Friday, November 29, 2019 10:56 PM, Comet Dweller <cometdweller at outlook.com> wrote:
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> What the frag. How could that "conduct" be illegal? Didn't the US Gov learn about the idiocy of trying to keep math and algorithms secret with the whole encryption = weapons thing decades ago now?

consider copyright and Napster. you can have a generic file sharing software, but you can't promote it as a piracy tool!

you can teach blockchain to NK, but you can't teach sanctions evasion and money laundering to NK!

add to this his actual attempt to transaction between SK and NK.

hard to feel sorry for a guy who tried to sell tor2web data (user IPs, full URIs, timestamps) to INTERPOL...

best regards,
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