Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > >> sadly, naively turning up tor to help folk who wish to be anonymous in >> hard times gets one a lot of assertive email from self-important people >> who wear formal clothes. >> >> folk who learn this the hard way may find a pointer passed to me by smb >> helpful, <http://www.chrisbrunner.com/?p=119>. >> > > If bittorrent of copyrighted material is the most illegal thing you > helped facilitate while running tor, and all you got was an assertive > e-mail because of it, you should consider yourself extremely lucky. > > Anonymity against privacy invasion and for political causes sure sounds > like a great concept, but in reality it presents too tempting a target > for abuse. If you choose to open up your internet connection to anyone > who wants to use it, you should be prepared to be held accountable for > what those anonymous people do with it. I'm sure you don't just sell > transit to any spammer who comes along without researching them a little > first, why should this be any different. You might also consider asserting your right to common carrier immunity under 47USC230.
Andrew
