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If the exit node only permits HTTPS connections out of it then it would be impossible for him to view the contents of exiting traffic, right? That one restricti
by pc2g4d 11y ago
If the exit node only permits HTTPS connections out of it then it would be impossible for him to view the contents of exiting traffic, right? That one restriction would seem to absolve the operator of responsibility for the contents of the communications.
- zanny 11y agoExcept the communications were going through TOR in his house. If police traced the packets exiting from him, that means they already got the public IP server the porn was sent from or to, but it passed through his computer as the visible endpoint. That meant it either proceeded elsewhere on the TOR network or stayed on his machine, and they had no external way of knowing without checking his hard drives.
- jandrese 11y agoThe most likely scenario is that the Police were running a honeypot and tracing every IP that connected to it. Obviously this would pick up a lot of TOR exit nodes. One of the exit nodes is in their jurisdiction so they pay it a visit on the longshot chance that the exit node operator was also a pedophile. If they knew he was running an exit node it smells a bit like a fishing trip, but since they didn't send the SWAT team in through the windows and hold his computers for 4 years out of spite (the Steve Jackson treatment) I have trouble faulting the cops too badly.
- pmocek 11y ago> If [police who conducted the search] knew he was running an exit node They did know. Martin Kaste of National Public Radio [reported](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472992023/when-a-dark-web-volunteer-gets-raided-by-the-police http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472...), "Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the department understands how Tor relays work, and they knew Robinson was a Tor host."