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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by mike-cardwell on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:23PM (#11434620)
"How do we know he doesn't operate the node for the very purpose of watching kiddy porn go by"

Why would anyone do that? If he knows how to install Tor, why wouldn't he download it through somebody IP instead of his own? I can't see any technical advantage to downloading it using your own IP when you could use somebody elses...

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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by icebraining on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @04:09AM (#11437391)
It'd make sense if he didn't trust Tor to actually anonymize his connections.
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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by mike-cardwell on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:20AM (#11447933)
If Tor isn't effectively anonymising connections, then he's screwed whether he downloads it from somebody elses IP, or his own...

Download from somebody elses IP = Probably not at all associated with himself.

Download from his own IP = Definitely associated with himself.

Again. What would be the advantage of doing this? There isn't one...

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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by icebraining on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:57PM (#11450657)
The post you've originally replied to said "watch the CP go by". Someone else would fetch it over his exit node, giving him an alibi, and he would just keep a local copy as it passed through.
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