The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine. ‘It could be worse,’ he says
  • flynnguy@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s not illegal to modify a gun, it’s illegal to modify a gun into a gun that meets certain criteria to then become illegal. The crime isn’t modification of the gun, the crime is the possession of a (now) illegal gun.

    • Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      So it’s… forbidden to modify it into something that kills even more people. There’s a reason I didn’t use the word “illegal.”