Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:22:48PM +0300, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > >> It seems that way. I run more than one node in Germany and I don't have > > Which Bundesland? Don't try this in Bavaria...
As I understand it, Frankfurt and Berlin are nice places to run a server or two. > >> a problem. It's a sad state of affairs that people are being forced to >> shut down their nodes. I'm sorry the police are questioning you, I do >> hope that they'll eventually understand that they have nothing to gain >> by doing this. > > Of course they have plenty to win. No Tor exit nodes in Germany -- no problem. > They can't win that battle. Tor is already adapting to stop blocking and this has an added benefit, it makes a great deal more nodes to seize. > Then, iterate across the world. > I'd like to make a comment about living in a free country but I've yet to really find one. I have some protection under the law but I realize that it's only as good as my ability to pay for lawyers. > And/or make anonymizing services illegal, so only criminals have anonymity. This sounds like you need to ensure your government doesn't take this route. Or find a strong economic case for anonymous communication. > And there's a very good chance this is going to work. I want to doubt you but I think it's possible. A serious crackdown could happen to a specific piece of software or protocol. It happened in Japan with Winny, right? I think that Tor is different but only time will tell. Regards, Jacob
