Tor exit node operator raided in Austria

Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by chollida1 on Thursday November 29, 2012 @10:22AM (#4848128)

Agreed.

I think one of the biggest benefits of such a fund is that it could employ a lawyer who could look at cases like this to determine who is "worthy" of receiving funds.

I don't want to be that guy, but all I know about this is that a guy claims that the child porn that was found was due to him running an exit node.

I don't want to say the porn was his, but it's possible that the porn was his.

I'd feel better about donating if I knew a lawyer had investigated and found his story to be credible.

Hypothetically, what if it was his porn, and then internet raise 1000's of dollars for him and then have this info come out. I'd imagine most people would be like me and never donate to people like this again. After all who wants to knowingly help someone escape justice when they actually deserve jail time.

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by DrWhax on Thursday November 29, 2012 @04:45PM (#4850453)

There are already quite a few funds like that, torservers.net and noisetor.net are examples of that, both have lawyers on stand-by. I recommend donating to these folks to keep exit nodes online!

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by chollida1 on Thursday November 29, 2012 @05:37PM (#4850712)

I did not know that.

Thanks

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by smokeyj on Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:02PM (#4848736)

If TOR was used for sharing illegal files, would you stop supporting it? Seems like you would be against most technology with that mind set.

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by chollida1 on Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:08PM (#4848771)

This comment confuses me. I never once took a stand for or against TOR.

All I said was: 1) it would be useful to have independent verification of this and similar claims 2) The reason is that if people were fooled into supporting a child pornographer then they'd be less likely to donate to worthy causes in the future.

I don't see how that's in anyway a debatable point:)

Tor did not once come up in my reply. You really seem to be reaching for something to argue about here. Calm down:)

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by bcoates on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:43PM (#4850998)

A criminal operating through their own exit node, or even running an exit node at all, is a nonsense misunderstanding of how TOR works.

Combined with your jumping to the "think of the children!" example of a child pornographer, and your framing your argument in the form of concern trolling, it's hard to assume good faith of any kind on your part.

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by chollida1 on Friday November 30, 2012 @12:43PM (#4854344)

> A criminal operating through their own exit node, or even running an exit node at all, is a nonsense misunderstanding of how TOR works.

I assure you there is no misunderstanding on my part.

> Combined with your jumping to the "think of the children!" example of a child pornographer, and your framing your argument in the form of concern trolling

Umm, this was from the article, not me:)

> it's hard to assume good faith of any kind on your part.

Wow, I have no words..... just wow...

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by smokeyj on Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:19PM (#4848851)

How do you see this playing out? "So, Mr.Node operator. Is that your child porn?"

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Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria by chollida1 on Thursday November 29, 2012 @12:30PM (#4848936)

I don't see it playing out well for exit node operators.

That's why I thought that a group to help pay legal fees for people like this was a good idea.

I fully support TOR and would like to support people who run exit nodes and get sued by the government just for hosting exit nodes.

What I don't want to support is people who personally collect and distribute child porn.

Which is why independent verification of the claims by this new entity would be beneficial.

I'm not sure how much clearer I can make this:)

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