Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com)

Frosty Piss writes: Seattle police raided the home of two outspoken privacy activists early on March 30th. Jan Bultmann and David Robinson, a married couple and co-founders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, were awakened at 6:15 a.m. by a team of six detectives from the Seattle Police Department who had a search warrant to examine their equipment. They claimed to be looking for child pornography, however Bultmann and Robinson believe the raid is because they run a Tor exit node out of their home. They said they operated the node as a service to dissidents in repressive countries, knowing full well that criminals might use it as well, much like any other communication tool. The Seattle Police Department acknowledged that no child porn was found, no assets were seized, and no arrests were made. Seattle's blog The Stranger notes that the FBI has conducted many other Tor raids across the country, and Friday quoted a tweet from the co-founder of Seattle's Center for Open Policing addressing the police. "You knew about the Tor node, but didn't mention it in warrant application. Y'all pulled a fast one on the judge... you knew the uploader could have been literally anyone in the world."

Comments

Re:Tor exit node

[110010001000]

He is a hacker. Goes by the name "Zero Cool"

Re:Tor exit node

[Gravis Zero]

He is a hacker. Goes by the name "Zero Cool"

A hacker wouldn't have chosen that name because "Zero Cool" is equivalent to "Not Cool".

Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo

[bigfinger76]

Ohh, so that's why cops don't like TOR. Gotcha!

Re: Standard tactics

[stealth_finger]

riveting