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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

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Post by doubled112 »

gpm wrote: post #58
derefr wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your effective wi-fi MAC address — the one other devices see — isn't fixed in stone, and in fact modern OSes build in support for automatically + continuously randomizing it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-use-rando...

Not just support it, but some platforms randomize by default https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/wifi-mac-random... https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/secb9cb3140c/...

Yes. This drove me a little insane since I keep track of my devices at home via DHCP lease.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by Ccecil »

icecreamtoilet wrote: post #48
pfannkuchen wrote: post #28

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I’ve never seen the term chomo before and I’m curious about its origin. Is it “homo” but with ‘c’ for child tacked on the front, or is it Spanish? Or something else, like a portmanteau of child molester?

It stands for child molester. The other term you hear all the time inside is “weird” or “weirdo.” There are others, diaper sniper, skinner (“skin bief”). You generally won’t get killed though. People like to say that but in fed low, where all the cp stuff goes, they’re all protected and they’ll ship you out if you get caught hurting them. And they WILL tell.

"Moes" for short also.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by EGreg »

wkat4242 wrote: post #54
sillysaurusx wrote: post #34

The eternal struggle. Information wants to be free, and then people use those freedoms to do the most screwed up things imaginable, and people like this pay the price. It’s a damn shame how the original cyberpunk dream played out. We could’ve had a world where companies couldn’t do anything about people using their ideas. Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators…

> It’s a damn shame how the original cyberpunk dream played out. We could’ve had a world where companies couldn’t do anything about people using their ideas. Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators. Corporate government is pretty much a staple of. all cyberpunk franchises though.

Maybe open source generative AI can help solve cp. Cater to all these pedophile fetishes, and no need to exploit children? Remember how we phased out ivory for piano keys, and other poaching?

With diamonds, there is still a push to source “the real thing” kept alive by De Beers, and other cartels like that. But for a lot of poaching, we found replacements. I think that’s how plastic got started too btw!

Also PETA has approved fake lab-grown meat, perhaps it can reduce demand for torturing so many animals in factory farms.

PS: Japan has a culture of infantile hentai or something in its animation - which may alleviate a lot of demand for actual cp — how much cp is in Japan? (There seems to be a lot of unusual/unnatural sexual norms in Japan… from Hikkikomori to dating vending machines to total celibacy for a large proportion of the population.) https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/11/japan-child-po...

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by dale_glass »

skilled wrote: post #23
npsomaratna wrote: post #16

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This isn't a parody, right? I mean, surely no-one would (seriously) say this in public in real life? Right?

It sounds like you have never been to a country where money can buy anything you want, including freedom. Many such countries in the world.

Such countries exist, but as this case and Andrew Tate show, actually putting it in such frank terms may not be a good idea.

Yeah, maybe you can buy yourself out of trouble. But I suspect in many such cases the people involved prefer to be bought quietly.

Make things too uncomfortably public or too embarrassing and the same people might well throw the book at you.

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Post by coldtea »

marcinzm wrote: post #64
martin1975 wrote: post #21

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It's not. I come from that area. He's telling the truth.

His statement being factual and his statement, admitting to breaking laws in Kosovo, being a rational thing to say publicly are different things.

It's perfectly rational if nobody cares about the laws being broken there, and they will have no repurcursion for admitting to it.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by jeroenhd »

Looks like there's more going on than what the title implies about the Tor exit node:

> What do you do now?

>§I left Austria and now work for a German company in IT, and have a data center in Kosovo… hosting grey area things there. Warez primarily.

> Also, I do want to add that I have more backstory. The CP was not the only reason for the raid.

He goes on to mention someone using the exit node to try to hack a NATO facility.

That said, the "confiscate first, come up with a fitting crime later" approach countries take on a whim are deeply troubling.

It sounds like they have had their suspicions against this man for a while (not without reason, it seems) and saw the child porn report as a chance to pounce on him, but later found out they didn't have as strong a case as they might have wished.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by DennisP »

swores wrote: post #66
monsieurbanana wrote: post #30

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That's not how Tor works, you don't need to run a tor exit to use it. If you were actually doing something nefarious and using tor for anonymity, running an exit from the same ip doesn't sound extremely smart.

You're misunderstanding the comment you're replying to. They're not saying you need an exit node to do bad stuff over Tor, they're saying that anybody with the technical ability and knowledge to run a tor exit mode would also choose to use Tor for any bad stuff, and that therefore it seems unlikely anyone who runs a tor exit node would also do bad stuff directly traceable to their own IP.

Exactly, thank you.

Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

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Post by abwizz »

schroeding wrote: post #8

Wow, 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…

could be targeted marketing essentially saying "don't worry, it'll be fine"

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Post by purple_elephant »

skilled wrote: post #23
npsomaratna wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't a parody, right? I mean, surely no-one would (seriously) say this in public in real life? Right?

It sounds like you have never been to a country where money can buy anything you want, including freedom. Many such countries in the world.

But you don't say these things out loud. Swiss bank ads don't look like this: "Genocidal dictators, we will help you hide your money!"
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