gwern comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 21 February 2014 01:39:39AM 0 points [-]

Who do you sue? :)

Comment author: Metus 21 February 2014 11:37:26AM 2 points [-]

There is always someone to sue. Maybe the SEC argues that anyone who runs the client is offering services that need a licence.

Comment author: ChristianKl 24 February 2014 08:49:42AM 2 points [-]

Then it will be hidden behind Tor.

Comment author: jaibot 25 February 2014 07:26:50PM *  0 points [-]

Maybe the SEC argues that running the TOR client is probable cause.

(Several iterations of "But what if" later...)

Maybe someone rules that encrypted or obfuscated communication is probable cause.

(I don't think this is likely, I just wanted to skip to the end of this line of thinking)

...actually, I wonder if anyone's tried to engineer a distributed steganographic cryptocurrency.