Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police
by jandrese on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @04:48PM
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The most likely scenario is that the Police were running a honeypot and tracing every IP that connected to it. Obviously this would pick up a lot of TOR exit nodes. One of the exit nodes is in their jurisdiction so they pay it a visit on the longshot chance that the exit node operator was also a pedophile.
If they knew he was running an exit node it smells a bit like a fishing trip, but since they didn't send the SWAT team in through the windows and hold his computers for 4 years out of spite (the Steve Jackson treatment) I have trouble faulting the cops too badly.
Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police
by pmocek on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:05AM
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> If [police who conducted the search] knew he was running an exit node
They did know. Martin Kaste of National Public Radio [reported](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472...), "Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the department understands how Tor relays work, and they knew Robinson was a Tor host."
That meant it either proceeded elsewhere on the TOR network or stayed on his machine, and they had no external way of knowing without checking his hard drives.