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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 rodgerd »

the_af wrote: post #422
johnnyanmac wrote: post #346

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really depends on your literature. Star Trek's interpretation of the future is very different from Dune's. Much of cyberpunk tends to be cynical but there are some more utopic interpretations out there as well.

What is a utopian view of cyberpunk fiction? I don't know any. The "punk" in the genre is the rebellion against or rejection of a corrupt and oppressive system that chews people up and spits them out as either defeated or criminals. If you're reading something else, it's not cyberpunk by definition. Remember, it's hi-tech and low lives.

> What is a utopian view of cyberpunk fiction?

Solarpunk, I would guess. "The street finds uses for things" doesn't end up being hardscrabble against dystopia.

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

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Post by int_19h »

ragequitta wrote: post #139
mindslight wrote: post #81

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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).

Google maps offers this functionality. I've had my local map and maps of any place I regularly go to downloaded for many years.

The problem with Google Maps is that they only let you download rectangular chunks of the map one by one (that aren't large enough to e.g. just download a whole state), and then those chunks must be kept regularly updated or they eventually "expire" without you having any say in the matter.

Google Maps also doesn't support offline contour lines / hillshading (what Google calls "terrain"), which is a big deal for hiking and other outdoor activities. Whereas with OsmAnd, you can literally have e.g. the entire North America in your pocket, with contour lines, offline navigation, and offline Wikipedia articles for every POI.

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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

linsomniac wrote: post #292
insickness wrote: post #287

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>everyone would turn and look at one person So the person everyone thinks would do it is pronounced guilty. I don't see any way that could go horribly wrong.

That's likely the starting place for the investigation, not the end.

You don’t want to be a suspect though as now you need to hope they will play fair.

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Post by Zpalmtree »

daemontus wrote: post #176
kedean wrote: post #135

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Just regarding your overall concern around maps and cellular service, Google Maps lets you download maps within very custom sized tiles for offline use. I'm partial to using them when hiking, so I can orient myself in areas where the actual trail markers become questionable. Routing doesn't really work offline, but that's a different/harder problem.

No disrespect, I use offline Google maps almost daily, but there are far far better offline hiking apps out there. Google will probably work ok for the most popular trails, and I guess you can use it as a supercharged compass. But at least in Europe, if you actually plan a route in any mountains based on Google, you're in for an adventure :)

What apps would you recommend?

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

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Post by asimeqi »

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…

Seems this hosting company is a scam. Kosovo might be corrupted but it is the country with the highest approval of U.S. government. The FBI can investigate and arrest you in Kosovo just as easily as they can arrest you in Maine. Probably even easier because in Kosovo you don't have same judicial guarantees as in the U.S.A.

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Post by chrsig »

Razengan wrote: post #480
chrsig wrote: post #450

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I'm sorry you had to live through that, and I'm glad you had tools to subvert that oppression. I'm relieved that it sounds like you've escaped from that situation. It was not my intent to assert any privilege, and it was my intent to acknowledge that scenario. If I may provide some clarification: Marriam webster[0] defines 'double edged sword' to mean > something that has or can have both favorable and unfavorable co…

> The other side of the blade however, it's also used to facilitate terrible acts of abuse, notably to children How do we know you are not hosting CP? Seems like the only way to really be sure is to make random raids on everyone and confiscate their equipment for a while.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Can you rephrase, please?

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Post by belorn »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #452
belorn wrote: post #367

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> 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.

It seems a great overestimate to think that 19 out of 20 people who use tor do so to download CP. I am pretty sure that will be false, and more likely something like one in a few hundred. One in a few hundred is the city. 19 out of 20 is the coffee shop.

I should also reiterate that everyone knows what streets and part of the city that criminals visits regularly. People who decide to live or visits those places do make that choice. This lead naturally to city stratification.

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Post by slowmotiony »

michaelmrose wrote: post #444
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #428

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> continual access to every major vpn provider increases the probability of getting caught Could you point out one example where CIA/NSA faced any real consequences after being caught doing something shady?

Can you please provide examples where they maintained continual access via hacking legal operations instead of serving entities with paperwork?

The Interpol literally took over a darknet market (Dream) using stolen admin credentials and continued to run the site for months to gather intelligence on vendors and buyers. Not the same thing but if LE is willing to operate a major illegal drug trafficking operation then surely hacking a few VPN companies doesn't seem impossible.

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Post by sofixa »

barrysteve wrote: post #339
lo_zamoyski wrote: post #311

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Wouldn't full disclosure make them, in some sense, honest ? Also, you have just condemned entire nations of people, like those who lived under Soviet domination, where bribery became custom, because if you wanted to accomplish anything , you had to bribe the people involved. Just got married and want an apartment for your new family? You could submit a housing application, but it might bubble up to the top of the que…

He condemned accurately. The soviet system sounds pointlessly overloaded with middle men. Why not abandon the "official system with middle men bribes" and descend all the way into mafia families and protection rackets? No matter the empathy I have for the suffering. What is the point of offering a bribe, to bully the system, in the same way the receiver intends to break the rules? Just tell the truth and say the syst…

> The soviet system sounds pointlessly overloaded with middle men

I find this conclusion hilarious (if not untrue) - you can say absolutely the same for the USA system. So many things require a useless middleman that only takes their cut and adds friction - car dealerships, "value added" resellers, health insurance, etc.

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

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Post by geysersam »

adastra22 wrote: post #443
colechristensen wrote: post #436

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I don’t know how you think the courts work but your roommates looking at you does not end up convicting anybody. Used as perhaps part of justifying probable cause or convincing people to say enough to do a more thorough search, sure.

A jury trial of your peers is a rare thing these days. This is how it would go down: The investigator says "who's been downloading CP?" and everyone looks at you. Probably because you're the weirdo internet geek among the family/roommates. They now have a suspect, and nothing you say then will convince them otherwise. They interview everyone separately leading the conversation to get statements about circumstantial t…

That sounds incredibly dysfunctional and rather scary. However, if I'm to be a bit sceptical, of the five felonies the cops found evidence for on your roommates computer, how many had he actually committed?

Maybe he was just guilty but told you he's innocent. That's what most people do, what I'd do.

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