The People Who Risk Jail to Maintain the Tor Network

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-operators

BY JOSEPH COX
Motherboard.vice.com
April 27, 2015

Richard* had a long drive ahead of him. About an hour earlier, at 5:30 AM, 
his wife Lisa* had phoned.

“The house is filled up,” she said in a calm but audibly tense voice. 
Richard, having just woken up and now trying to make sense of the call, 
thought there must have been another water leak in the basement.

Instead, his wife told him, the house was full of FBI agents and they 
wanted to talk to Richard.

“Okay, I’m on my way,” Richard said. He threw on some clothes, grabbed his 
laptop and phone as requested by the FBI, and stepped out into the night. 
The interstate drive from Milwaukee, where he was working as a software 
engineer, back to his home in Indianapolis would take a good five hours, 
more than enough time to figure out what this was all about.

It was something to do with computers, Lisa had said. The only thing 
Richard thought may be linked to that was his Tor exit node.

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