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Researchers Face Jail Risk For Tor Snooping Study
An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers from the University of Colorado and University of Washington could face both civil and criminal penalties for a research project (PDF) in which they snooped on users of the Tor anonymous proxy network. Should federal prosecutors take interest in the project, the researchers could also face up to 5 years in jail for violating the Wiretap Act. The researchers neither sought legal review of the project nor ran it past their Institutional Review Board. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has written a legal guide for Tor admins, strongly advises against any sort of network monitoring."
The link to the study is borked. Correct link: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoshi/papers/Tor/PETS2008_37.pdf
Nope. Slashdot banned tor openly, as do most online discussion systems that don't want to be flooded by endless bots.
You either ban all tor users or you allow all tor users, since any one user can just reconnect through every tor node to evade ip bans(allowing them to create new accounts if their old one was banned). Most places would rather be able to ban users, so they disallow tor exit nodes.