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Law enforcement is also about going after whistleblowers, journalists, or, in most countries, just ordinary citizens the current people in power don't like, eve
by afh1 2y ago
Law enforcement is also about going after whistleblowers, journalists, or, in most countries, just ordinary citizens the current people in power don't like, even if no crime was committed.
- aniviacat 2y agoYou seem to have misinterpreted my comment. I was not making any moral judgement on people operating tor nodes. I was simply stating that you are, in fact, hindering law enforcement if you set up a non-logging proxy for the purposes of hindering law enforcement. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is up to you to decide. Clearly many people think it's a good thing; good enough to go through the efforts of setting up a proxy.
- MerManMaid 2y agoGermany does not mandate that TOR end-node providers are expected to log their users. Saying that not logging someone who went through your end-node is intentionally hindering the police would be like accusing a shopkeeper of intentionally hindering the police because they didn't make of record of every person who entered their storefront.
- aniviacat 2y agoMaybe. I think it differs because tor is specifically created to protect against surveillance; both private surveillance and state surveillance (a.k.a. law enforcement). If a shop was actively helping people avoid surveillance, I would expect them to actively assist law enforcement, too. I find it perfectly reasonable to consider people who actively help a project which advertises on its website that it is being used to protect against state surveillance / law enforcement to be hindering law enforcement.