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Anything wanting to be better should build on the good properties of PGP while not possessing the drawbacks.

Yes, this is persecution because possessing firearms is protected under the second amendment and moonshine production isn't.

It allows one possessing a lot of intelligence to achieve once goals quicker and more efficiently.

In Australia it's especially bad, with somebody being convicted for possessing hand-drawn Simpsons porn.

Perhaps the crime should be buying or selling it, not simply possessing it.

Alternately, if you consider knowledge to be possession, then possessing isn't exclusive.

Fourth one: > Following an incident later in 2007 involving his stepfather, a restraining order was filed against him, barring him from possessing firearms.

How do you avoid the liability of possessing child pornography?

He's making pigs run off cliffs, he's possessing people and whatnot … What he’s doing now is getting people not to believe in him or in God.

I think we can both agree that, to a developer not possessing your level of skill, the revised example is slightly easier to follow.

Merely possessing lock picks is usually fine.

And yes, arguments of proportion cut both ways - look at the incarceration rates in the US, a huge proportion of which is for a victimless crime (possessing drugs).

" "Not having the stigma of possessing a long resume gap due to a period of unemployment because of discrimination.

The result is plenty of people having a degree, but little of them possessing any skill usable to actually create something, and little of them willing to do physical job ("I wasn't studying for five years only to ride a forklift cart!").

Third parties (like Google Authenticator) possessing the 2FA codes is not a problem because they don't possess the passwords and are generally "trustworthy." Losing access to the 2FA hardware isn't such a problem on platforms like Heroku that assign account recovery codes.

Personally, I think we'd need a much more intelligent and complex AI for the capability of breaking free of the box and even possessing the "desire" than we're getting for the foreseeable future (it considers a motivated AI of almost limitless knowledge about the world and cleverness), so this thought experiment may not be so relevant.

Possessing and distributing child porn is a crime, regardless of whether you believe it directly causes harm.

Possessing malware for purposes of reverse engineering to develop protections is obviously important, and clearly an activity we would want to remain lawful (and hopefully unlicensed/regulated).