Samourai pleaded guilty.
What evidence exits of the charge they pleaded guilty to?
What evidence exists of any other charges that were dropped as a condition of their guilty pleas?
The bottom line is, as a result of their guilty pleas, the prosecution never had to present thir case in court, so the public may never necessarily know the answers to these questions. Instead, we have the obviously self-serving narrative provided by Samourai.
As such, I think we need to be careful about insiting "We have to free them". I mean, it's okay to want them to be free. But, we probably shouldn't be spreading the speculation that the feds will be coming after all privacy software develpers based on an incomplete understanding of what evidence the feds might have had to convince Samourai to plead guilty.
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I haven’t taken a position on these individuals. I will say that post-conviction pardoning campaigns are fake and ghey and we should direct our energy at the disease not the symptoms. If they hadn’t made a tremendous amount of money from their software while publicly encouraging it be used for crimes, I might have an easier time taking a position. But trying to plead for favors from our tyrants makes me sick to my stomach. William Wallace cried for freedom, not mercy.
Reminds me too much of arsonist-firefighters
"Oh you want me to fix the problem I caused?"