The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an eminent digital rights group, has filed a memory of Amicus in support of Roman Storm, developer of the confidentiality protocol of Crypto, Tornado Cash (Torn).
Storm was accused of conspiracy to facilitate money laundering, the exploitation of a silver issuer without license and the violation of sanctions concerning his work on the Tornado cash protocol.
“Government prosecutions raise larger civil concerns that could cool the future development of technologies improving privacy more widely,” the EFF in thesis wrote.
The EFF arises that Storm prosecution threatens open source innovation as the main question in the case of developers responsible for how their tools are used, instead of continuing the bad actors directly, could have a scary effect on The development of privacy software.
“Almost all of the confidentiality and anonymity protection software tools are double -use tools. Like a physical mask or cash paper, they provide necessary protections, often critical for users, but can also be used by Bad actors to help hide their crimes “, the efficient wrote.
In the accusation of Storm, the government is based on the International Economic Economic Powers (IEPA), which allows it to impose economic sanctions and restrict transactions during national emergencies. This application, supports the EFF, is inappropriate.
“If the government considers that these technologies should be criminalized, it must request a relief from the congress and not count on the ieepa and the other laws deployed in this pursuit, or, worse, try to do auxiliary activities in Bootstrap even further from any criminal act in the field of these laws, ”wrote the eff.
If the congress wants to regulate tools like the Tornado Cash, supports the efficient, it has the power to adopt a law which clearly distinguishes legal from illegal use, but that the accusation in this case does not give this clarity.
The torn token increased by almost 50% in the last month, according to market data, on the optimism of a favorable result for the storm.
The storm must be returned to court in April.
