The only way you won't have to provide PII is if you buy it from someone outside of the exchange ecosystem (from somebody face to face with cash or a gift card (note: Local Bitcoin has been gone for about a year now)). Exchanges have to comply with KYC (Know Your Customer) laws if they want to operate in the US, which is why they're asking for PII.
drwho
There are still a bunch of torrents being seeded out there.
Working on open source software was one of the things they used against Aaron Swartz.
Think of the stock prices!
It wouldn't surprise me if somebody tried to get such a thing passed in a couple of years.
And those half-assed laws make great pretext laws.
"That guy has a 3d printer! He might be fabbing ghost guns!"
Somebody needs to be seen doing something before the next election.
Incidentally, 3d printed parts aren't used for conversion kits. They're machined out of metal stock (and occasionally re-machined original parts).
I was serious. BBSes would be an ideal long-distance communication method under some circumstances.
Or perhaps an unassuming office building that only has outbound VPN connections.
This. Whoever manages to splice an optic nerve (meaning, it goes just about perfectly) would be in line for a Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Librewolf on my personal laptop.
That squares with the greyprints I've looked at. However, the article specifically talks about conversion kits.