Re:Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:23PM
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>He's not a telecom company, so he'll be responsible for whatever his IP address hosts.
I would challenge you to point to a specific law that actually says that. I'm not saying you can't (there are a lot of countries in the world with a lot of ridiculous laws), but what you're saying would prohibit internet cafes, public libraries with computer terminals, coffee houses or hotels with wifi, etc., because none of them are telcom companies and they allow unauthenticated or poorly authenticated members of the public to use their IP address.
The truth is complicated. But if we're trying to get things to work how they should work, raiding Tor exit nodes just because they're Tor exit nodes is not in the cards. Even if the existing laws are defective in some jurisdictions, they can be fixed, and in the meantime police and prosecutors are very often allowed the discretion to not go out of their way to harass potentially innocent suspects. I may be asking too much asking for them to actually exercise it.
I would challenge you to point to a specific law that actually says that. I'm not saying you can't (there are a lot of countries in the world with a lot of ridiculous laws), but what you're saying would prohibit internet cafes, public libraries with computer terminals, coffee houses or hotels with wifi, etc., because none of them are telcom companies and they allow unauthenticated or poorly authenticated members of the public to use their IP address.
The truth is complicated. But if we're trying to get things to work how they should work, raiding Tor exit nodes just because they're Tor exit nodes is not in the cards. Even if the existing laws are defective in some jurisdictions, they can be fixed, and in the meantime police and prosecutors are very often allowed the discretion to not go out of their way to harass potentially innocent suspects. I may be asking too much asking for them to actually exercise it.