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Historical: "Why you need balls of steel to operate a tor exit node" http://web.archive.org/web/20100414224255/http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you

Historical: "Why you need balls of steel to operate a tor exit node" http://web.archive.org/web/20100414224255/http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-node/ http://web.archive.org/web/20100414224255/http://calumog.wor... The above is within the context of a western legal system, and certainly since it was written domestic law enforcement has become even more militarized and aggressive. I would be absolutely unsurprised if the same thing happened today and it resulted in a battering ram on the door at 0400 in the morning, flashbang grenades and the house being rampaged through by a SWAT team.

tptacek 2y ago
Has that ever happened to a Tor node operator? If it hasn't, what's the closest incident to a Tor node operator you're aware of where it has?
- dewey 2y ago
  In my country there was this famous case ~a few~ many years ago: https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operating-tor-exit-node/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operat...
  - blub 2y ago
    Looks like he was not only arrested, but actually sentenced: https://www.theregister.com/2014/07/04/austrian_tor_exit_relay_op_found_guitly_for_ferrying_child_p0rn/ https://www.theregister.com/2014/07/04/austrian_tor_exit_rel... 3 years probation and 30.000€ fine.
- golergka 2y ago
  https://lwn.net/Articles/720231/ https://lwn.net/Articles/720231/
chucksmash 2y ago
> As a parent of very young children I have an extensive network of friends and contacts in my neighbourhood who also have children. As we know the subject of paedophilia is not one that can be debated with any rationality at all in the UK. It is surrounded by hysteria. I was terrified that people would find out that my computer had been taken because of that – ‘no smoke without fire’.
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numpad0 2y ago
Many European countries have standing police armed forces, closer to army national guards than blue shirted civilian police. They're for suppressing resistance forces and revolutionary uprisings, and they tend to fill roles of FBI too. I think that contributes more to normalization of MP5 ninjas fast roping down through your chimney for Internet crimes in Europe than law enforcement over-militarization had done.

tptacek 2y ago

Has that ever happened to a Tor node operator? If it hasn't, what's the closest incident to a Tor node operator you're aware of where it has?

dewey 2y ago
In my country there was this famous case ~a few~ many years ago: https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operating-tor-exit-node/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operat...
- blub 2y ago
  Looks like he was not only arrested, but actually sentenced: https://www.theregister.com/2014/07/04/austrian_tor_exit_relay_op_found_guitly_for_ferrying_child_p0rn/ https://www.theregister.com/2014/07/04/austrian_tor_exit_rel... 3 years probation and 30.000€ fine.
golergka 2y ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/720231/ https://lwn.net/Articles/720231/

chucksmash 2y ago

> As a parent of very young children I have an extensive network of friends and contacts in my neighbourhood who also have children. As we know the subject of paedophilia is not one that can be debated with any rationality at all in the UK. It is surrounded by hysteria. I was terrified that people would find out that my computer had been taken because of that – ‘no smoke without fire’.

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numpad0 2y ago

Many European countries have standing police armed forces, closer to army national guards than blue shirted civilian police. They're for suppressing resistance forces and revolutionary uprisings, and they tend to fill roles of FBI too. I think that contributes more to normalization of MP5 ninjas fast roping down through your chimney for Internet crimes in Europe than law enforcement over-militarization had done.