Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
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Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#2“The law was changed a few weeks later to include private persons and sole traders as protected lsps, not just companies, but they had to convict me.”
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#3I noticed they mentioned “logs” of you talking about hosting CP, can you elaborate?
They took a bunch of IRC logs where I stated what I can and can’t host at a web hosting provider I owned. The logs do exist but are taken out of context.
The "reporting" here is at the level of a 90s scene mag.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#4“ The law was changed a few weeks later to include private persons and sole traders as protected lsps, not just companies, but they had to convict me. ”
> If convicted, this could land me in jail for 6 to 10 years.
The 6 to 10 years is the least of his worries. The guy will be labeled a chomo and probably killed as a result. All for running a Tor exit node. What a time to be alive.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#5The authorities in Styria, south Austria, charged him:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141004142101/http://raided4tor...
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#6Quite logical, same in France and likely many countries; if you run a Tor exit node (or any type of open proxy), you get visited by the police if someone does something wrong on your exit node.
Otherwise what could happen is that you run a Tor node and use it as an excuse for any crime you do.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#7It's almost like they don't want us to run exit nodes...
This man's plight is exactly the reason I won't.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#8Wow, the website of his hosting company[1] is, eh, extremly honest:
> Further, as Kosovo is an extremely corrupt country, we are able to bribe both executive and judicative as well as getting information about court orders and raids before execution, enabling us to move servers out of the affected location, protecting our clients in any situation. Our excellent Serbian connections enable us to also move servers cross-border and play "ping pong" between both countries, essentially keeping content online forever.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#9Quite logical, same in France and likely many countries; if you run a Tor exit node (or any type of open proxy), you get visited by the police if someone does something wrong on your exit node. Otherwise what could happen is that you run a Tor node and use it as an excuse for any crime you do.
I'm trying to imagine a plausible reason to (a) run a Tor exit node, but also (b) not actually use Tor for online nefariousness, and I'm coming up blank. I don't think running a Tor node as an excuse is a real scenario. (edit: emphasis)
Edit2: Jeez guys. I support Tor. I'm saying anyone who runs an exit node is also going to use Tor for anything that might get them in trouble, not do those thing in the clear and "use Tor as an excuse" as suggested above. That's a silly scenario and a poor justification for criminalizing Tor exit nodes.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#10I noticed they mentioned “logs” of you talking about hosting CP, can you elaborate? They took a bunch of IRC logs where I stated what I can and can’t host at a web hosting provider I owned. The logs do exist but are taken out of context. The "reporting" here is at the level of a 90s scene mag.
True enough. But even this level of detail and research is far beyond what the "authorities" displayed in this case.