10 sats \ 7 replies \ @oliverweiss 7 May \ parent \ on: Coinjoins were not killed. They were decentralized. bitcoin
What about various malware and viruses?
Still not a crime, until you deploy them to the victims. I could play around with viruses in my lab for research. Actually, I did wrote a few as a teenager for educational purposes back in the 1990s.
Well, here I have doubts, I suppose that the code is not a crime as long as it is not created for it, but I don't think I am the right one to contrast this, you have left me doubting.
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It's about the target. If you write dubious code and deploy it on other people's machine, it's that deploying part that makes you a criminal.
If you simply write dubious code to keep to yourself, you're not a criminal. I mean how else would you teach others how to protect themselves from dubious code?