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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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I stopped running a Tor non-exit node from home a few years back, because a lot of websites and platforms blacklist any IP associated with Tor. I couldn't actually watch anything on Hulu for years (though they were still happy to take my money, which I refused to give them) because of this.

Running a tor node is a thankless thing one can choose to do. Nevertheless I did for years. I don't do it anymore.

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

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I 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.

Have you read the court's decision? If not, how would you be able to tell?

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

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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.

Couldn't you say the same for every coffee shop that gives random people Wi-Fi access?

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

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“ 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.

This case was in Austria, not the US, and was quite some time ago (early 2010s). He was charged under a law criminalizing "support of general distribution", not possession. He was sentenced to probation, and left the country.

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

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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…

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

Right?

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

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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…

They should rename themselves to basedhost after that statement
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