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Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:10:21 -0500
The BBC has an article about a similar issue on a Tor exit node in Austria: Austrian police raid privacy network over child porn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20554788 ## Austrian police have seized servers that were part of a global anonymous browsing system, after images showing child sex abuse were found passing through them. Many people use the Tor network to conceal their browsing activity. Police raided the home of William Weber, who ran the servers, and charged him with distributing illegal images. ## It is unfortunate that systems in place to allow free speech end up being abused for the wrong purposes. The same applies to anonymous remailers which have been used to stalk and harass/bully people often using forged email addresses (since those remailers allow one to forge the sender's email address instead of forcing an "Anonymous" sender email. If Tor servers are just glorified routers then they could be considered more as transit providers and not responsible for content transiting through them. However, if a transit service goes out of its way to hide the identity of the sender of a packet to make it untraceable, then it becomes more than a simpler "carrier".
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