Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

2015-03-22 Thread odinn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Shizzle's opinion, it would seem, is highly important. I'm done here. Thy Shizzle: > Oh so you're talking about the criminality of one single entity? So > having a quick look, it seems that the issue is they are collecting > IPs and that kind of th

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

2015-03-22 Thread Thy Shizzle
Oh so you're talking about the criminality of one single entity? So having a quick look, it seems that the issue is they are collecting IPs and that kind of thing as well? So similar to what http://getaddr.bitnodes.io is doing but without the funding from the bitcoin foundation? If you are worri

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

2015-03-22 Thread odinn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Back to what is Chainalysis and country of their origin, so criminal complaints against them would likely relate to violation of Swiss laws, as is described here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=978088.msg10774882#msg10774882 It is fairly ob

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

2015-03-22 Thread Thy Shizzle
I don't believe that at all. Analyzing information publicly available is not illegal. Chainalysis or whatever you call it would be likened to observing who comes and feeds birds at the park everyday. You can sit in the park and observe who feeds the birds, just as you can connect to the Bitcoin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Criminal complaints against "network disruption as a service" startups

2015-03-22 Thread odinn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 If you (e.g. Chainalysis) or anyone else are doing surveillance on the network and gathering information for later use, and whether or not the ultimate purpose is to divulge it to other parties for compliance purposes, you can bet that ultimately the