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As someone else has stated elsewhere in this discussion, I don't think GitHub have much to worry about. Tornado Cash the service was sanctioned, and MS would choose to censor the repo out of an abundance of caution. In the same way that the pair that open-sourced the ransomware PoC didn't get arrested because they are further away from the offenses.

I have mixed thoughts on safe harbor for centralised exchanges, they are the closest thing we have to banks in cryptoland. Mostly because with grey areas like that, a prosecution is only going to be pursued with clear evidence they knew but did nothing.



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