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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 skilled »

lb1lf wrote: post #53
skilled wrote: post #23

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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.

Well, money will only buy you freedom in such places until you annoy someone with deeper pockets than you have sufficiently so that they want you to wind up behind bars. Corruption is an equal opportunity weapon.

Sure, but that’s in extreme cases. For small stuff like papers, permits and such - talking to the right people will get you anywhere you want to go.

I still remember handing over my passport to a guy on a sports bike in Singapore to get an extended stamp for Indonesia, and only a few years later did it occur to me how sketchy the whole situation was.

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

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

itronitron wrote: post #119
andybak wrote: post #98

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Paper gets heavy real quick and personal microfiche readers never caught on.

I imagine it's really hard to drive a car and use a microfiche reader at the same time.

The Electro Gyrocator essentially worked that way. You placed transparencies over the CRT for the map section you were currently in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-features/ph-origins-navi...

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

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Post by Euphorbium »

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…

But google maps provide offline maps, and have done it for years. You just have to save them in advance.

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

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Post by patrakov »

vel0city wrote: post #114
jmkni wrote: post #90

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> 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

Even then there were lots of apps out there which provided maps offline before Google maps was even an idea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Streets_%26_Trips https://winworldpc.com/product/softkey-key-master-maps/10 And then that's also completely ignoring the hundreds of portable GPS devices sold before Google Maps was a thing which had offline road databases. I can navigate anonymously without cell signa…

> I can navigate anonymously without cell signal easily. My car has a GPS in the dashboard which, at least for the maps and routing, doesn't go online at all.

I agree that this is indeed possible. The problem is with the propaganda that says that you should not agree to such a low standard of only being able to see the map and route your trip based on road connectivity and nothing else. Modern route planning takes into account inherently real-time information such as accidents and other roadblocks, which is only available online.

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

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Post by sillysaurusx »

iudqnolq wrote: post #116
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…

Not necessarily. Making that statement, setting up in a country that has enough issues to make it plausible, and then not paying the bribe would also make a lot of sense. See also: no log VPNs that actually were logging. Worst case scenario they shut down, collaborate fully with the police and keep all the profits up til then. Better case scenario they make a deal with the police and keep operating and making profits…

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.

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

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Post by throwaway914 »

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…

There are many, many pedophiles out there. I'm also convinced of a conspiracy theory that a lot of dark web traffic and hosts are created/operated by secret parts of the gov to de-legitimize the need for anonymity. I believe this because it would be too easy with the access to that material and no oversight. Just muddy the waters so nothing in there looks worth protecting.

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

sudosysgen wrote: post #170
dudeinjapan wrote: post #153

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I don't think anyone is saying he should be in jail because he's saying misogynistic stuff. The context of his bragging about corrupt officials was on why his illegal casinos and sex trafficking operations didn't have any problems (while he himself never directly admitted to it, some of his associates tweeted about beating a "girlfriend" who wanted to stop doing webcame shows, and he heavily implies it at time when t…

> I don't think anyone is saying he should be in jail because he's saying misogynistic stuff.

For what it's worth, I do. The shit he and others of his ilk teach to young, vulnerable men is inspiring a lot of real-world violations of women, some even get drawn to outright terrorism and murder.

In Germany, we call such persons "geistige Brandstifter" for a reason. They may not light a fire on their own - in general they keep their hands very clean and shiny to be able to spread their message far and wide - but they sure as hell have no issues when others do the dirty work for them. And of course when someone follows the stochastic terrorism strategy, the preachers disavow them.

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

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Post by akira2501 »

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…

> Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators.

Says the person posting under the name "sillysaurusx."

> Whonix community who wanted to nix google maps entirely; he spent a lot of time downloading maps and trying to make a way to view them locally, which I think is going to be prescient one day. It already is in many parts of the world — you don’t have cell service

Here's an idea, maybe he should print those maps out, bind them together into a larger map, and then find a really complicated way to fold them up so he can keep them handy when needed.

> In some sense cp is the ultimate test of anonymity, since you’ll be thrown in prison pretty much instantly if caught.

And yet.. it is still produced in the physical world where none of these constraints actually exist. It's only promulgated and marketed through anonymous means.

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

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Post by skilled »

jrflowers wrote: post #183
dudeinjapan wrote: post #153

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Can you elaborate on how you know that the human trafficking charges are bogus?

Not to hijack his comment but I am open to betting my HN account that those charges on him will be cleared. There is no evidence on what he is accused of, and he has since appeared in podcasts with people who have done a lot of great interviews in the past.

You’d have to be a complete idiot to associate with a trafficker unless your gut made it clear as day that there isn’t much meat to these potatoes.

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Oh no… the “i downvote but don’t comment” brigade has arrived.

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

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Post by foobiekr »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #195
iudqnolq wrote: post #116

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Not necessarily. Making that statement, setting up in a country that has enough issues to make it plausible, and then not paying the bribe would also make a lot of sense. See also: no log VPNs that actually were logging. Worst case scenario they shut down, collaborate fully with the police and keep all the profits up til then. Better case scenario they make a deal with the police and keep operating and making profits…

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.

All of them.
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