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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 mindslight »

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…

Tangential to your much larger lament - OpenStreetMap, and specifically OSMAnd which is libre and free on F-droid, works great for offline maps that are downloaded ahead of time. (I think the version on Google Play limits the number of regions you can download unless you make a small donation).

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

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Post by TeeMassive »

rvnx wrote: post #6

Quite 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.

Swatting 2.0 will be people installing tor exit nodes

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

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Post by midasuni »

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.

In the U.K. they tend to be called nonces

Always weird when you stumble into an encryption conversation

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

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Post by CSMastermind »

zgluck wrote: post #57
martin1975 wrote: post #21

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

Yes. That is also why we need to keep Kosovo out of the EU until this has been fixed - which I'm pretty sure won't happen any time soon :(.

I've heard similar things about Romania and Bulgaria which are both EU countries.

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

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Post by gmiller123456 »

zer8k wrote: post #31
pfannkuchen wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The way I learned it is that it is a portmanteau of child molester. The extra "o" in the middle is used because "chmo" is hard to pronounce.

"Chimo" would make more sense in that case, so that's probably not the origin of it.

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

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Post by mikae1 »

ghaff wrote: post #40
treyd wrote: post #22

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You still need downlinks with this. You could have some base stations run by amateurs, but that paints a target on their backs in a similar way running a Tor node already does.

As with Sealand/HavenCo and international waters/micronations more broadly. Even if no country with guns chooses to take direct action, it takes very little--if they care enough--to cut off supplies and any meaningful communications.

Does anyone remember https://wired.com/2007/01/the-pirate-bay-2/ ?

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Post by krisoft »

coldtea wrote: post #76
marcinzm wrote: post #64

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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.

Not at all. Admiting it publicly has all kind of repercussions internationaly even if there are none locally.

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

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Post by DennisP »

mikegreenberg wrote: post #49
DennisP wrote: post #9

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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…

Based on your wording, it sounds like you're conflating the two things together... running an exit node and using tor are orthogonal to one another both in value provided to the user as well as effort involved. Plausible reasons for: (a) you greatly value privacy and the privacy of others such that you are willing to altruistically provide an exit node as a service; your country is a police state and you are sympathe…

As someone else helpfully clarified for me, my point is that anyone with the technical skill to run a Tor exit node is also going to use Tor to hide any illegal activities they do online.

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

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Post by DennisP »

cs02rm0 wrote: post #29
DennisP wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Any privacy advocate would do (a). There's lots of reasons to do (b) if you don't trust the government of the country you're in, which seems quite reasonable in a lot of countries around the world.

Of course, but who would do (a) without also using Tor for anything that could get them in trouble?

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

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Post by jmkni »

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…

> he spent a lot of time downloading maps and trying to make a way to view them locally

Isn't that, like, a map? lol we've had maps long before the internet

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