alt Hacker NewsBut he also chose to go on and found a darknet narcotics service. Most people don't do something like that.
Yes, it's vogue right now to speculate that what you're doing right now could suddenly become illegal in a new administration, but if that happens tomorrow, most of us would be one of hundreds of thousands who are all in the same boat. For that reason, most of us won't get targeted retroactively for behaviors that were legal at the time, and we have the option to reevaluate our security posture when the political landscape changes.
But yeah, if you're actively speculating about starting an illegal service today, you should definitely have a better security posture than Ulbricht did.
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> but if that happens tomorrow, most of us would be one of hundreds of thousands who are all in the same boat. For that reason, most of us won't get targeted retroactively for behaviors that were legal at the time
I'm sure that would be part of any oppressive government's plan. They wouldn't go after people for their past "transgressions" as long as they keep their heads down, do as they're told, and don't cause any trouble. At that point you're morally compromised.
> Yes, it's vogue right now to speculate that what you're doing right now could suddenly become illegal in a new administration, but if that happens tomorrow, most of us would be one of hundreds of thousands who are all in the same boat
I'm probably more paranoid than needed, but I'm way less sure than you seem to be about being able to hide as one of a few hundred thousand needles in the US public haystack.
I, for one, would be terrified right now if I were the child of illegal immigrants. The hateful portion of the hard right are gleefully looking forward to ICE rounding up hundreds of thousands of people.
You should probably be concerned if you were publicly pro-choice a few years back. Or if you came out as trans. Or got gay married. Or any of probably hundreds of other things that most people would have thought perfectly safe and socially reasonable in the recent past, which are looking much less so today.