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German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server
An anonymous reader writes "In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shut-down the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was located in a data center, over 500km away. In the last year, Germany has passed a draconian new anti-security research law and raided seven different data centers to seize Tor servers. While back in 2003, A German court ordered the developers of a different anonymity network to build a back-door into their system."
So you have illegal traffic coming from your machine and intentionally can't point out who it came from, and you chose to do this willingly. How are you not liable for that traffic? It would be different if this was just a hosting provider who provided service in good faith that someone took advantage of, this is someone running something INTENTIONALLY untrackable.
If you don't think he should be held accountable for the traffic from his machine, whats to stop anyone from running tor and then either directly or through tor doing any illegal activity?
You could argue most digital crimes shouldnt be crimes at all (and I'd agree), but thats a different argument entirely
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Good rebuttal. Brought in an offtopic parallel to something totally unrelated in service of bashing the US for now reason. Extra Slashdot points for you. Also, I was lying about that being a good rebuttal.
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