The US government said you already have enough privacy and then 153 million driving licences went up for sale on the dark web.
In the Tornado Cash trial, prosecutors told the jury a bank account or a Coinbase login was 'privacy enough'.
Their expert said the responsible version of the software was a login screen and a database linking every user to every transaction.
That is the same architecture used by the company that scans licences at hotels, rental desks and dispensaries.
Scans of ordinary people and senior officials appeared for sale on the dark web, along with data that could expose people hiding from abusers.
Storm built software with no middleman holding the data:
- no company
- no server
- no identity file
That was treated as the crime.
Data collection is not the same thing as safety. You cannot leak what was never collected.
https://lnkd.in/epsYvSQB
Susie / Susie Violet Ward
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2026-09-03 09:20:00 UTC
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