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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
#452The 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…
> you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators. Statistically there is quite a large number of criminals in my city, and since I visit shops and other parts of the city, I am bound to unknowingly to me been rubbing elbows with those criminals. We are all anonymous to each other, and what can I really know about the person in front of me in the store. Go past a few hundred people and someone…
It would be more analogous to having all the pedos in the city use one coffee shop and everyone knows that pedos use that coffee shop and you decide to go there because you prefer their coffee.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#453> In Austria
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#454Yup, had the same experience, also got raided, but unlike him, I got exonerated :)
No conviction whatsoever. I had obviously nothing like files nor logs nor whatsoever, and like him the raid was not really related to that, but instead a fight against the government against e-voting.
It was certainly quite a ride...
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tate is an incel? "a member of an online community of young men who consider themselves unable to attract women sexually" I think Tate is going to be super surprised to learn that. Dude is many things, an incel is not one of them. Perhaps you have been caught up in the hysteria and are attributing things to him that he is not responsible for? I'm not a Tate fan and think he is probably not a good person but there has…
Oh he's not an Incel by any means, but he's regarded as the ultimate role model, the person to become, by a hell of a lot of them. And that is the true danger behind Tate: there are a lot of people able and willing to commit an awful lot of criminal or offensive things just to get to the point he is.
The only incel forum I've seen is incels.is and searching for Andrew Tate I see just as much if not more negative opinion of him as there is positive. Even the positive ones are "yeah he's a grifter, but he annoys people I don't like" which is hardly thinking of him as a role model.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which vpn was no-log-but-logging? I was shopping around for an alternative after mullvad blocked port forwarding, but it seems like no one else is as trustworthy. Not that I need it for my “attempt to port forward smash ultimate from within crummy hospital internet” purposes, but hey, principle of the thing and all that.
tl;dr if you want your network to be private, maybe don’t pay a saas to do it. Your ISP already tracks ingress and egress.
My main adversary is my own ISP. VPNs are perfect for that.
My secondary adversary are companies geoblocking content. VPNs are still perfect for that.
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#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am all-but-certain that NordVPN doesn't. I am in possession of records from a recent police investigation in which law enforcement subpoenaed NordVPN and the company replied, essentially, that they had no information connecting a particular IP address, at a specific date and time, to any specific user. (I am a reporter who covers law enforcement and crime.)
Are you sure you're not thinking of Mullvad? Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638917
Yes. This is a totally unrelated case that never made the news.
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#458Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am all-but-certain that NordVPN doesn't. I am in possession of records from a recent police investigation in which law enforcement subpoenaed NordVPN and the company replied, essentially, that they had no information connecting a particular IP address, at a specific date and time, to any specific user. (I am a reporter who covers law enforcement and crime.)
You must be mistaking NordVPN for Mullvad.
I am not. This is an unrelated case that has never been reported publicly.
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#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Same, I've had to disable it on devices of my family.
I like that it's the default though. Privacy first!
Re: Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
#460My BIL used to work CP with the DHS, a tech going in heavy with the first wave to secure devices. I asked him if he had ever run into Tor exits, he said no, but they did sometimes run into people with unsecured wireless that had been used by third parties and once it was clear that was what happened it was pretty much dropped. I'm sure they would have ways to deal with people leaving their WiFi open as a way of camou…
How often do they raid a residence and find nothing?
I have no firm data on it, but he did mention some cases where there was CP but it wasn't clear where it was coming from (open wireless situation I mentioned), and it sounded like they didn't pursue it once it was obviously not the resident.
What he said sounded like they didn't go into a place without having evidence of CP already though, things like "This IP address has uploaded CP to these locations at these times" evidence.