Raided for running a Tor exit - Accepting donations for legal expenses

TheHackBox

This is some pretty bad news for William... expect more news soon

William

Busy giving interviews..... thanks for all the donations, they will really help me.

Maounique

@William said: Busy giving interviews...

Stay strong !

joepie91

Interview with William released here: http://raided4tor.cryto.net/ (in English, Dutch, and German)

Maounique

Too bad Falco died :( Alles klar herr Komissar...

Amitz

Fuck, William, what do you need those firearms for???

24khost

Hey @William there is your in. Get in touch with your boy mr moneybags KimDotCom. He can probably help you with a lawyer.

William

Meh, PayPal account limited due to fund limit - Need to call PayPal tommorow to remove this ASAP.

BronzeByte

@William

Those bitches... :L

kbeezie

@William said: Meh, PayPal account limited due to fund limit - Need to call PayPal tommorow to remove this ASAP.

Saw that coming, they have a habit of freezing up accounts that suddenly started taking donations. Just don't mention Bitcoins to them...

Paul

@William said: Busy giving interviews.....

TV interviews? Wow, issue must really be BIG where you're from. Well anyways, that will help inform everyone about the problem, and rally more support for your cause.

Looking ahead, you can probably get book deals, a tv-slot or even a movie or two "Tor, hammer of the Gods". (Lol, just lightening up the situation a little bit.)

kalam

@Amitz William is channeling his inner American through those firearms. Absolutely nothing wrong with them as long as they are legal. Hopefully they don't go after him over the Marijuana possession, 10 grams is nothing.

kbeezie

@Paul said: TV interviews? Wow, issue must really be BIG where you're from.

I'm sure he means web interviews like blogs and skype chats etc.

24khost

@kalam wrong person you ment @Amitz

kalam

@24khost Wops, my bad.

Fliphost

Just noticed this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/

kbeezie

@Fliphost said: Just noticed this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/

I wasn't aware an LET thread was a "blog post".

Fliphost

@kbeezie their blog post word links to http://raided4tor.cryto.net/

kbeezie

@Fliphost said: @kbeezie their blog post word links to http://raided4tor.cryto.net/

And their words " he wrote in a blog post seeking donations." links to this thread. 3rd from the last paragraph.

Though in regards to the before/after picture... I'm surprised they didn't take the laptop.

BlueVM

@kbeezie - They did, he bought a new one using some emergency funds he had stashed in a safety deposit box.

kbeezie

@BlueVM said: @kbeezie - They did, he bought a new one using some emergency funds he had stashed in a safety deposit box.

Ahh that explains that. Was thinking if they took a cable box they probably took every conceivable storage medium.

fly

gl, don't wish this on anyone, but you -were- running an exit node

RosenCruz

Hope you can find a way out of this. My prayers with you @William

birdie25

Why would a normal guy have a safe deposit box with an emergency phone and enough cash to buy a new MacBook? Not attempting to hate or anything, i'm just curious :)

dnom

@birdie25 I don't think it's like that.

...then went to my bank to pick up an emergency phone and cash from a bank deposit box.

http://raided4tor.cryto.net/

JTR

100TB in storage, large amounts of legal weaponry, large amounts of electronics, and drugs... You must have been earning quite a respectable amount of money from edis. It's too bad that you probably won't see any of it again for months.

Thank you for doing an interview, it was interesting to see how they conducted their raid.

@birdie25 said: Why would a normal guy have a safe deposit box with an emergency phone and enough cash to buy a new MacBook? Not attempting to hate or anything, i'm just curious :)

I am too. It sounds, erm, a little paranoid.

kbeezie

@JTR said: 100TB in storage

Well probably doing more than just running exit nodes since you don't actually have to store the stuff that goes thru them. Maybe a few torrent seeders too?

Zigga

@birdie25 said: Why would a normal guy have a safe deposit box with an emergency phone and enough cash to buy a new MacBook? Not attempting to hate or anything, i'm just curious :)

Don't you have any emergency funds stashed? I know, I do. #Mattress-stuffing

JTR

@kbeezie said: Well probably doing more than just running exit nodes since you don't actually have to store the stuff that goes thru them. Maybe a few torrent seeders too?

Yeah, the only two uses I can think of for 100TB at home is torrents or backups (and while it's quite certainly possible, I don't think he'd be backing up VPS nodes to his home).

@William: Do you know what will happen to you now, if your hardware/guns will be returned, and if you will or will not be charged with anything in relation to the child pornography part of this?

miTgiB

@birdie25 said: Why would a normal guy have a safe deposit box with an emergency phone and enough cash to buy a new MacBook? Not attempting to hate or anything, i'm just curious :)

Why is it odd to have a little something set aside for a rainy day? today it rained, and he is damn glad he did plan a little ahead. I don't see paranoid at all, I see he was short sighted to stash so little.