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Raided for running a Tor exit - Accepting donations for legal expenses
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That is true and this is the reason they are doing it in the first place. Either that or outlaw Tor and encryption in general, i am afraid that as long as there is encryption, even if they close down Tor, there will be other projects similar, and even with outlawed encryption, ppl will use plausible deniability, for example steganography.
In the end the little guys will be wiretapped all over and the real criminals wont give a fuck. That is so obvious that it might be the desired outcome in the end.
I have this strange feeling even if using Tor or other encryption nothing is private on the internet someone higher up like governments/police/fbi/cia they can bypass everything for sure.
This is another way to attack the anonymity online.
We know everything so why bother, even more, if you try to hide we will raise a flag and someone will look you up.
Well, if it was so, there wasnt such a campaign with CP and terrorism against Tor, for example, why would they bother...
I was donating this week
Very sad thread, hope you can get back on your feet ASAP. Unfortunately cannot donate right now, but I am wishing you the best of luck.
However, LET is a great place for support, the amount of people who donated here just screams there is hope still left in humanity good work everyone.
An online italian magazine wrote an article about William: http://punto-informatico.it/3663372/PI/News/server-tor-inguaiati-pedoporno.aspx
@steve81
pedopornoWhat the actual fuck..@eastonch I don't understand what do you mean.
The word "pedoporno" is at the end of the url you posted.
Do you still need donation? (please update so I can help you)
The article is on william's side, they even link here about the legal fees.
Since william has probably his hands full atm, here is my answer:
https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html?targetaddr=&targetPort=&ip=109.99.29.245×tamp=2012-07-07#relay
That links to a query I did about one of my home exit nodes. As you can see, you can input the date and IP, also will be able to check the IP/port combination that the exit would allow.
There were free, public ways to check, the police didnt do their job, especially since they were supposedly cooperating with the polish police and should have known those already found out from william that was a tor exit node if they were so incompetent ot so lazy to check it online for themselves.
Or, rather, they did their job well if their job was to scare ppl away from Tor.
There were free, public ways to check, the police didnt do their job, especially since they were supposedly cooperating with the polish police and should have known those already found out from william that was a tor exit node if they were so incompetent ot so lazy to check it online for themselves.
Or, rather, they did their job well if their job was to scare ppl away from Tor.
I think it's also about accountability/etc would such a free tool hold up in certain courts as evidence for or against someone? Not so much about lazy, but if they can legally use such information without risk of tampering/accuracy, with that they can only take the Tor developer's word for it, and the Tor developers won't give their word on any legal matters.
Actually, police pretended they didnt know. There is one thing to know and another to be able to prove in court, true, but the peoblem here is that they either didnt know or they pretended they didnt know.
In either of these cases they have a very big problem.
And us with them.
Still I don't understand why he quoted it. Is part of the article title, what's the problem?
@steve81 I was just stunned by the italian name of it.
Are there any updates on this case?
will be donating later today. I'll donate $25
He said he doesnt need it anymore.
No, now it means waiting - could take long.
I only read his paypal was full, not that he had enough money?
Thanks all!
@Roberthussy Gr8 that you got to find interesting things , now if u would be kind enough to remove that irrelevant link (SEO services) from your post. Do understand that this is not a link building platform
Thanks all!
Which indeed says he got enough money over paypal, but not that he has got enough funds
It basically only means that paypal is not contacting me about unlocking it, so sending more is useless...
It's gona take a while, especially if it has anything to do with donations for legal expenses etc (they seem to be bias against anything related to criminal accusations).
PS: You may have to actually pick up the phone and call em, dealing with them strictly online will get you no where.
What do they have to lose for keeping your money for longer ? For sinking someone which fights for privacy ?
I wouldnt expect them to release the money, nobody can force them, after all, their ToS says they can keep your money if they want to.
Wrong, they are a bank in the EU
The global community when this whole house of cards falls, with fake money, but that is a story for another day.
Dutch banks seemed to do pretty well holding transfers for sometimes days on end, for years... until they were finally forced to complete transfers in <1 working day.
By the way what's the Case number that was on the arrest warrant or whatever it was?