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It is just pedophiles. A user posted here on HN a while ago that they ran a Tor exist node and the overwhelming majority of it was CSAM or other cybercrime. Her
by Barrin92 2y ago
It is just pedophiles. A user posted here on HN a while ago that they ran a Tor exist node and the overwhelming majority of it was CSAM or other cybercrime. Here in Germany they busted some underground forum and a single individual had 35TB worth of it at home. There's no great conspiracy, the criminal underworld is huge and they use every service that doesn't clamp down on it in some form.
- jmorenoamor 2y agoNaive question. Isn't tor supposed to be private? How can you know the contents of the communication just by running a node?
- LikesPwsh 2y agoIf it's an exit node, you know what the user is connecting to but not which user.
- neilv 2y agoThat's discouraging, if true. I don't mind doing the occasional on-principle thing (like running Tor Browser for general-purpose browsing, and Tor as the VPN plugin on my phone), and maybe it's a citizen-technologist obligation to do my share of that. But I'd rather not have some Orwellian Bayesian system flagging me for using Tor.
- 1oooqooq 2y agorun a node. but never an exit one.
- immibis 2y agoHow would they know their traffic was csam? Traffic passing through an exit node is traffic between a Tor user and the open Internet. Who's running csam servers on the open Internet instead of as hidden services? And without https? Especially when Tor Browser enforces https? This story doesn't add up at all. They did bust a site owner despite Tor, though. That story's true.