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ipnon
The developer has not been charged.
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budududuroiu
What's the difference between this and Waze?
bb88
This is what weaponization of the DoJ looks like. Under Bush 41 they would try to hide it to make it look like they weren't because of political fallout. But now they don't have to hide it anymore.

The DoJ is supposed to uphold the law, and not be criminals themselves.

dluan
There was a time when the Hacker part of Hacker News meant something. But now I look around and see faces like Shaun Maguire's, Dario Amodei's, millions of engineering man hours being poured into the "Salesforce for Killing People". What are we even doing here.
epistasis
This reminds me of Aaron Swartz's persecution, which seemed to be under a law on the books that was unjust. This appears to be an even more brazen abuse of prosecutorial power, threats without even the cover of an attempt at enforcing a law, just plain thuggery.
bamboozled
I look at this and think open source devices with mesh networks, that's what people need, but I guess the bad guys (government agents) can get them and locate you via a signal that's being emitted?
overstay8930
I mean even putting the politics aside, you do kind of ask for this to happen when you start putting actual pressure on real people. Someone was eventually going to do something about this.

Pretty authoritarian but it's not like this just didn't happen under previous administrations. It just didn't happen publicly. You could definitely get someone visiting you at your door if you made apps that make certain things too easy.

ryandrake
This article went from #3 on the front page of HN to #260 in ten minutes[1]. Talk about someone wanting to keep you from reading about it!

1: https://hnrankings.info

JohnTHaller
For folks wondering why this is newsworthy, the Attorney General of the United States is threatening a US citizen with curtailing his protected speech.