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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by kbenson on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @01:02PM (#11432147)
There's no guarantee you would use your own node. It's entirely possible that the police could find actionable evidence on his systems even if the initiating evidence wasn't actually because of him. Sort of like a police office seeing what looks like a beer bottle in a drivers hand and pulling him over, only to find it's a rootbeer bottle, but the driver actually is drunk.
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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by Dylan16807 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @07:36PM (#11435456)
To make it fit this case, the police know it's root beer before they pull the driver over, but they do it anyway.
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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by kbenson on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:02PM (#11435615)
To make it fit this case, they got an anonymous call about drunk driving with a car that fits the description. It looks like it's just a root beer bottle, but it's not out of the question (IMHO) to stop the driver and make sure.
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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by Dylan16807 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:08PM (#11435644)
If "root beer" is tor traffic, and "beer" is illegal non-tor traffic, then they got an anonymous call about the driver holding a bottle. No evidence of drunkenness.

Well, not quite, but eh I can't make it perfect, it's a throwaway analogy.

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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by kbenson on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:29PM (#11435739)
No, the police showed up because a a report of child pornography was traced to his ip. An actual crime was reported and followed up on. Let's not lose that point, it's important.
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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by Dylan16807 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:34PM (#11435752)
An actual crime, but they knew they had no good guesses about who committed the crime.
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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by rblatz on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @07:55PM (#11435573)
More apt, they saw him swerving in his lane, while driving with a root beer bottle.
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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by ikeboy on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:11PM (#11432854)
Ah, the joys of Gettier.
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