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>Cult members say their protocol is built from the same digital DNA as the Tor browser If it's built on technical ideas of TOR + IPFS, is it also susceptible
by jasode 3y ago
>Cult members say their protocol is built from the same digital DNA as the Tor browser
If it's built on technical ideas of TOR + IPFS, is it also susceptible to same legal liability exposure?
A man from Austria was successfully found guilty of running a Tor exit node because he had child porn flow through it. Him not purposefully allowing child porn traffic did not let him off the hook. He got 5 years probation instead of a jail sentence but it still cost him over $6k in lawyer fees:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tor+exit+node+child+porn https://www.google.com/search?q=tor+exit+node+child+porn
- jeroenhd 3y agoAccording to the first result on the query you've linked: > The court noted that experts had found and reconstructed image files from the "lost cluster" of a hard disk containing pornographic depictions of minors. However, it found the accused not guilty of knowingly accessing those images, since it could not be established with the certainty required in criminal proceedings that they had been downloaded by him rather than by the automatic action of a Web browser. I have to wonder how that image ended up on that hard drive. Your run of the mill Tor exit node certainly does not keep copies of the content it spreads on disk. The sentence wasn't about hosting an exit node, it was about offering hosting services to pedophiles. Tor itself wasn't under attack, at least not in that particular criminal case.