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I'll reply to everyone at once here since the same concern for the most part is being conveyed. 1) Regardless your personal definition of "pedophile" or "terro

I'll reply to everyone at once here since the same concern for the most part is being conveyed. 1) Regardless your personal definition of "pedophile" or "terrorist" I believe there are crimes that a solid selection of persons across humanity can agree are not acceptable. But I realize there is no universality of beliefs, so I will be flexible here. I'm actually not saying you _should_ cooperate with law enforcement, only that, accepting that the law is _supposed_ to be upholding human decency, then we _ought_ due to moral responsibility help them. But... 2) if we do that, must we also sacrifice anonymity and the right to privacy? All the examples below illustrate that what we ought to do can often get us harmed; so the solution? 3) Vigilantism on the part of conscientious Tor operators; that is, boot the offenders, release the data to the public that they are trying to keep private, and let someone else deal with them. What, you believe that some sacred law among the cyber underground has now been broken? In prison, they kill pedophiles. This is not snitching but a combination of self-preservation (getting law enforcement off your scent) and universal justice (because there must be crimes "we" can "all" agree aren't conducive to a healthy life, a progressive universe and the continuation of the species as advanced.

MichaelGG 11y ago
Broadcasting the exact usage of Tor exit nodes would be a net loss for privacy. While everyone should be using HTTPS over Tor and treating the exit node as they would a massive public open WiFi spot, not everyone does so. Putting such users at risk publicly exposing accidental usages of HTTP doesn't help. Furthermore, releasing the previous-hop starts to degrade the privacy of Tor, a little bit. That's not a good thing. LE can figure out how to go after "pedophiles and terrorists" using other gumshoe techniques, instead of trying to downgrade everyone's opsec. Not to mention this idea of vigilantism is... a terribly bad idea (to put it politely)? You're actually advocating that people go lynch/kill others based on Internet traffic logs. Nothing's stopping all sorts of sites from embedding links to "bad" content and framing people. Or, exit nodes can just fake the log information if they wanted to.

MichaelGG 11y ago

Broadcasting the exact usage of Tor exit nodes would be a net loss for privacy. While everyone should be using HTTPS over Tor and treating the exit node as they would a massive public open WiFi spot, not everyone does so. Putting such users at risk publicly exposing accidental usages of HTTP doesn't help. Furthermore, releasing the previous-hop starts to degrade the privacy of Tor, a little bit. That's not a good thing. LE can figure out how to go after "pedophiles and terrorists" using other gumshoe techniques, instead of trying to downgrade everyone's opsec. Not to mention this idea of vigilantism is... a terribly bad idea (to put it politely)? You're actually advocating that people go lynch/kill others based on Internet traffic logs. Nothing's stopping all sorts of sites from embedding links to "bad" content and framing people. Or, exit nodes can just fake the log information if they wanted to.