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> Once you start using Tor and public Wifi, you admit that what you're doing is illegal. Thankfully that’s not how law works. Also, I use Tor everyday, for tot
by kobeya 9y ago
> Once you start using Tor and public Wifi, you admit that what you're doing is illegal.
Thankfully that’s not how law works. Also, I use Tor everyday, for totally legal things I want to keep private.
- austinjp 9y agoIt's not how law works -- currently, in some countries. But it is how suspicion works, and governments in the US and UK, for example, seem highly suspicious of their populous.
- kobeya 9y agoIn the US at least the law cannot devolve into suspicion being adequate burden of proof. This is a constitutional protection that has been strengthened, not weakened by the courts over time, with only infrequent temporary setbacks. It's unfortunate that's not how things operate on the other side of the pond, but that's connected to why the US is the way it is.
- foota 9y agoSure, but it doesn't mean that the police can't start investigating people they find suspicious.
- mattmanser 9y agoAren't you talking about criminal rather than civil law?
- dreamcompiler 9y agoSalina v. Texas changed that. It's a horrendous decision. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/supreme-court-salinas-v-texas-ruling-explained/314145/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/supreme...
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago> In the US at least the law cannot devolve into suspicion being adequate burden of proof. Once an attacker knows or has guessed at your identity, they can focus their investigation and make it much easier to find admissible evidence against you. It's best to keep them from ever thinking of you in the first place, if you can. That means not doing anything visibly suspicious.
- mcguire 9y agoOn your work computer? :-)
- kobeya 9y agoYes, in fact. Part of my job too. We have servers accessed through Tor as a rudimentary DoS protection.