RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-18 Thread Brandon Lehmann
In any event, I'm pretty sure that I'd rather get hit with tampering with evidence versus them retrieving data that may incriminate me. I believe this may be a the lesser of two evils game. -Original Message- From: Kyle Creyts [mailto:kyle.cre...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 17,

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 11/30/2012 02:02 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: OK, there must be a lot more paranoid people out there than I thought for awhile? I am sure he will let you out to go to the bank, get your stuff, and leave town. I think you have seen way to many movies. So if the cops show up at his door

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Kyle Creyts
In most jurisdictions, wouldn't using a de-gaussing ring in the door frame to wipe any equipment being removed constitute tampering with evidence or interfering with an investigation if the authority in question is in possession of a warrant/subpoena? On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Jeroen van

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
Drifting a big off topic for NANOG (but hey, that happens every /pi/ days anyways!), but I'll toss this in... Like every other legal incident, it would be unique to your own situation. Keep in mind that, should any of the charges you mentioned go to court, the prosecution would have to prove

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:28:28 -0500, Peter Kristolaitis said: Now, having said all that... I'm not sure I'd want to pay the electricity bill for keeping that degausser running... :p An EMP device doesn't have to chew power all the time... And of course, there's this:

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 34925.1355780...@turing-police.cc.vt.edu, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: --==_Exmh_1355780734_2398P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:28:28 -0500, Peter Kristolaitis said: Now, having said all that... I'm not sure I'd want to pay the

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 12/17/12, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 34925.1355780...@turing-police.cc.vt.edu, On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:28:28 -0500, Peter Kristolaitis said: Yeah... degaussing rings consume a lot of energy you shouldn't need to consume. If you _must_ be able to protect data from

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 12-12-17 21:45, Jimmy Hess wrote: Yeah... degaussing rings consume a lot of energy you shouldn't need to consume. Now now, you clearly have not watched enough scient fiction/action movies... Clearly, you have a mechanism which triggers the degaussing (or neutron bomb in the basement the

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Henry Yen
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 20:45:04AM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: If you _must_ be able to protect data from extreme physical threats: keep it encrypted end to end at all times, Physical threat is somewhat different than seizure by law enforcement, though. Although mooted when authorities

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 12/18/12, Henry Yen he...@aegisinfosys.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 20:45:04AM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: Physical threat is somewhat different than seizure by law enforcement, though. I'm not so sure about that. It's a kind of physical threat; the set of all physical threats

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-05 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 12/5/12, Jutta Zalud j...@netzwerklabor.at wrote: Technically you are right. But then: what is the difference to ISPs? They offer routing- and DNS- and mail- and other services on various infrastructure. ISPs typically have a customer.They know their customer, they retain sufficient

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 5, 2012, at 12:38 AM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/5/12, Jutta Zalud j...@netzwerklabor.at wrote: Technically you are right. But then: what is the difference to ISPs? They offer routing- and DNS- and mail- and other services on various infrastructure. ISPs typically

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-05 Thread Joe Greco
An end user operating a TOR exit node, or wide open Wireless AP, intentionally allows other people to connect to their infrastructure and the internet whom they have no relationship with or prior dealings with, in spite of the possibility of network abuse or illegal activities,they

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-05 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
On 12/5/2012 8:35 AM, Joe Greco wrote: An end user operating a TOR exit node, or wide open Wireless AP, intentionally allows other people to connect to their infrastructure and the internet whom they have no relationship with or prior dealings with, in spite of the possibility of network

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-05 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
Does it matter if an anomysing service advertises itself as allowing free speech to users in countries where free speech is censored, compared to a service that advertises itself as catering to the mafias of the world, ensuring their crimes are untraceable ? In the later case, it makes it very

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Nick B
I seriously doubt many TOR exit nodes have the political clout to be considered a common carrier. In a related note, I wonder if the six-strike rule would violate the ISP's safe harbor, as it's clearly content inspection. Nick On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Jordan Michaels

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 12-12-03 14:44, Jordan Michaels wrote: case evolves in and out of court. Are Tor exit-node operators going to be given the same rights as ISP's who's networks are used for illegal purposes? Perhaps if Tor exit node were called Tor exit Router, politicians/policemen would have a better

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Brian Johnson
I know I'm going to get flamed and excoriated, but here goes snip case evolves in and out of court. Are Tor exit-node operators going to be given the same rights as ISP's who's networks are used for illegal purposes? I would hope so, but it doesn't seem like that has happened in this

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:32:01 +, Brian Johnson said: This is a misleading statement. ISP's (Common carriers) do not provide a knowingly illegal offering, ... TOR exit/entrance nodes provide only the former. This is also a misleading statement. Explain the difference between a consumer

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Joe Greco
This is a misleading statement. ISP's (Common carriers) do not provide a knowingly I'm trying to remember when ISP's became common carriers... illegal offering, ... TOR exit/entrance nodes provide only the former. This is also a misleading statement. Explain the difference between a

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 4, 2012, at 09:32 , Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com wrote: I know I'm going to get flamed and excoriated, but here goes snip case evolves in and out of court. Are Tor exit-node operators going to be given the same rights as ISP's who's networks are used for illegal purposes? I

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
In countries where the law does not dictate that all carriers maintain extensive logs, this is fairly simple. Whether you are a Tor node or a normal ISP, you do nothig until you get a court ordered warrant, at which point you collect information passing through your network and hand it over to

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Michael Painter
Owen DeLong wrote: I strongly disagree with you. TOR exit nodes provide a vital physical infrastructure to free speech advocates who live in jurisdictions where strong forces are aligned against free speech. I'm sure most TOR exit node operators would happily provide all the details they have

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 4, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Brian Johnson bjohn...@drtel.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 2:22 PM To: Brian Johnson Cc: Jordan Michaels; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-03 Thread Joe Greco
I suspect that the 'free speech' part of the total tor traffic volume is pretty small(?). Something like tor doesn't work if it is all traffic that's free speech regarding the regime of whatever country the user lives in. If it were, it'd be just as sensible to set a DETAIN_AND_TORTURE_ME

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-03 Thread Warren Bailey
Speaking of torture.. Can you imagine an email thread that lasted longer than an entire weekend? This email needs to be murdered, because it is completely out of control. In other words, the shit has been mercilessly beat out of this horse. From my Galaxy Note II, please excuse any mistakes.

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-03 Thread Aled Morris
On 3 December 2012 07:19, Joakim Aronius joa...@aronius.se wrote: I am all for providing anonymized access to help free speech. Perhaps its better with anon access to specific applications like twitter, fb etc and not general internet access. I suspect that the 'free speech' part of the

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-03 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:49:24AM +, Warren Bailey wrote: Can you imagine an email thread that lasted longer than an entire weekend? Yes, I can. I've participated in some that went on for months. It's simply a matter of effectiveness and attention span. This email needs to be murdered,

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-03 Thread .
The crime of routing somebody else traffic in the wrong iso layer. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-02 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 11/29/12 23:18 , Joakim Aronius wrote: I am all for being anonymous on the net but I seriously believe that we still need to enforce the law when it comes to serious felonies like child pr0n, organized crime etc, we can't give them a free pass just by using Tor. I dont think it should be

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-02 Thread Michael Painter
Joel jaeggli wrote: The internet is potentially quite a useful tool for getting your message out so long as using it isn't holding a gun to your own head. While we site here with the convenient idea of some legal arbitrage which allows me to do something which isn't illegal in my own domain

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-02 Thread Jima
On 2012-12-02 22:44, Michael Painter wrote: Joel jaeggli wrote: The internet is potentially quite a useful tool for getting your message out so long as using it isn't holding a gun to your own head. While we site here with the convenient idea of some legal arbitrage which allows me to do

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-02 Thread Joakim Aronius
* Joel jaeggli (joe...@bogus.com) wrote: On 11/29/12 23:18 , Joakim Aronius wrote: I am all for being anonymous on the net but I seriously believe that we still need to enforce the law when it comes to serious felonies like child pr0n, organized crime etc, we can't give them a free pass

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-01 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
The BBC has an article about a similar issue on a Tor exit node in Austria: Austrian police raid privacy network over child porn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20554788 ## Austrian police have seized servers that were part of a global anonymous browsing system, after images showing child

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-01 Thread Joe Greco
Those who do not remember history... On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:23 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: http://www.sjgames.com/SS/ Those who do not remember history... what, exactly? We're doomed to repeat this over and over even if we remember it. Even if we were to assume that there are no bad

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-12-01 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:36:56AM -0600, Joe Greco wrote: Even if we were to assume that there are no bad actors in law enforcement, what happens when someone is simply faced with something so complex that they don't really understand it? The conventional wisdom is to seize it and let

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-01 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Example of an actual warrant: https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/inresearchBC/EXHIBIT-A.pdf Please also keep in mind, if it's relevant, that *no warrant* is required for data that is stored by a third-party. Data on a server, TOR or otherwise, would by definition be data

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-01 Thread Jutta Zalud
The BBC has an article about a similar issue on a Tor exit node in Austria: Austrian police raid privacy network over child porn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20554788 actually it is not a similar case but the case of William W. that BBC reported. Though with some mistakes: the servers

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Joakim Aronius
* Will Hargrave (w...@harg.net) wrote: On 29 Nov 2012, at 20:53, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: The assertion being made here, that it's somehow illegal (or immoral, or scary) for there to be not-completely-traceable internet access in the US, is absurd. The real

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:04:02AM -0500, Chris quoted (William): Yes, it happened to me now as well - Yesterday i got raided for someone sharing child pornography over one of my Tor exits. Question: what evidence has been published -- that is, placed somewhere that we can all see it -- that

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-11-30 13:51 , Joakim Aronius wrote: * Will Hargrave (w...@harg.net) wrote: On 29 Nov 2012, at 20:53, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: The assertion being made here, that it's somehow illegal (or immoral, or scary) for there to be not-completely-traceable internet

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Barry Shein
On November 29, 2012 at 11:50 george.herb...@gmail.com (George Herbert) wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tom Beecher tbeec...@localnet.com wrote: Assuming it's true, it was bound to happen. Running anything , TOR or otherwise, that allows strangers to do whatever they want is just

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Barry Shein
On November 30, 2012 at 08:18 joa...@aronius.se (Joakim Aronius) wrote: I am all for being anonymous on the net but I seriously believe that we still need to enforce the law when it comes to serious felonies like child pr0n, organized crime etc, we can't give them a free pass just by

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Barry Shein wrote: On November 30, 2012 at 08:18 joa...@aronius.se (Joakim Aronius) wrote: I am all for being anonymous on the net but I seriously believe that we still need to enforce the law when it comes to serious felonies like child pr0n, organized crime etc, we can't give them a

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Yeah, next they'll let just anyone walk down the sidewalk without identifying themselves. And those are public sidewalks paid for by tax dollars! If you hang out with criminals, sooner or later you'll encounter a situation

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:04:02AM -0500, Chris quoted (William): Yes, it happened to me now as well - Yesterday i got raided for someone sharing child pornography over one of my Tor exits. Question: what evidence has been

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
-Original Message- From: Rich Kulawiec [mailto:r...@gsp.org] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 6:59 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 08:04:02AM -0500, Chris quoted (William): Yes, it

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 11/29/12, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: If the computer at IP:port:timestamp transmitted child porn, a warrant for all computers is also too broad. Computers which use said IP As you know, there may always be some uncertainty about which computer was using a certain IP address at a

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
On 11/30/2012 04:01 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: I am a little concerned that this guy keeps a safe deposit box with a burner phone and cash around. Is he a CIA agent? :) Anyone who DOESN'T have such things stashed away somewhere is, IMHO, incredibly naive and taking on quite a large amount

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
As a network professional do I not have a duty to protect my companies network from unauthorized access within my ability to do so? I think I do. If you lost all of your credit card and identity data because I left an open wifi hotspot on my network would you have a liability case? I sure think

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
OK, there must be a lot more paranoid people out there than I thought there were. I personally don't have a runaway kit stashed away. I will get right on that. So when that mouth breather cop won't believe you are innocent, your answer is to grab your stuff and go on the lamb for awhile? I am

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Rayson Ho
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: If they had a qualified technician, they probably wouldn't be raiding a TOR exit node in the first place; they would have investigated the matter more thoroughly, and saved precious time. And what if the TOR exit node was

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
From: Jimmy Hess [mailto:mysi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 3:47 PM To: William Herrin Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can. On 11/29/12, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: If the computer at IP:port:timestamp

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Eric Wieling
-Original Message- From: Peter Kristolaitis [mailto:alte...@alter3d.ca] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 4:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can. (Note: I don't mean to imply that all cops are power hungry

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
I didn't say anything about trying to run away. That probably won't accomplish a whole lot in the long run. But when all of your bank accounts and credit cards are frozen, and your house is a crime scene, at least you have the means to rent a hotel room, contact family/lawyers, etc. And

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/29/12, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: If the computer at IP:port:timestamp transmitted child porn, a warrant for all computers is also too broad. Computers which use said IP As you know, there may always be some

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
Guess who has power over the networks and Internet. We do and power corrupts us too. There are some bad guy ISPs and engineers out there too. Just because you are running a Tor server to allow for privacy protection does not mean you were never doing anything illegal through it. I know this

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
OK, I get it. I think my BS detector is set to high today. I am just really suspicious that this guy that runs an large ISP can't at least wait until there are charges before all the uproar. I think if the cops came and seized my home PCs right now I would probably give them the time to look at

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
I might be reading this the wrong way but it looked to me like the cops raided his home and the Tor server is hosted off site with an ISP. That is what is bugging me so much. The cops raided his house, not the location of the server. If they had tracked the server by its IP it would have led to

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-11-30 Thread Joe Greco
OK, I get it. I think my BS detector is set to high today. I am just really suspicious that this guy that runs an large ISP can't at least wait until there are charges before all the uproar. I think if the cops came and seized my home PCs right now I would probably give them the time to

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Jason Baugher
I can't help but wonder who would send money to same random person based on a story that may or may not be true. Were these people sucked in by Nigeria scams as well? Not only that, but the list of people who proclaimed their innocence only to be proven guilty is very long. I can't vouch for

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-11-30 Thread Naslund, Steve
I understand that they could look at them for many months. In the meantime, my life will go on. I don't believe there is a whole lot you can do about it. If they take too long, I will consider asking a lawyer to look into getting my stuff back but it would have to be expensive stuff to make the

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Michael Painter
Naslund, Steve wrote: I might be reading this the wrong way but it looked to me like the cops raided his home and the Tor server is hosted off site with an ISP. That is what is bugging me so much. The cops raided his house, not the location of the server. If they had tracked the server by its

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2012-11-30 Thread b.g. white
PROCEDURE FOR SEIZURE OF COMPUTERS AND RELATED DEVICES This search warrant covers and controls the procedure for searching: (1) electronic or computer devices, related equipment or media which has been authorized to be seized pursuant to this warrant on the basis that it is contraband or a

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2012-11-30 Thread goemon
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Naslund, Steve wrote: My message to the cops and my lawyer would be charge me or lets clear this up. There are laws to protect you from the government from taking your stuff in an unfair manner if you want to go that route. If there is a misunderstanding I will talk to the

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Randy Bush
Not a lawyer. than stfu with the legal crap

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread Owen DeLong
Not only that, but the list of people who proclaimed their innocence only to be proven guilty is very long. I can't vouch for countries outside of the USA, but here at least we don't get subpoenas on a whim. They are usually part of a very long drawn-out investigation, and they usually are

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if

2012-11-30 Thread George Herbert
Those who do not remember history... On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:23 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Naslund, Steve wrote: My message to the cops and my lawyer would be charge me or lets clear this up. There are laws to protect you from the government from taking your stuff

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Ray Soucy
If you run Tor, then you should probably accept that it might be used for activity that you don't approve of or even is in violation of the law. I'm not saying Tor is good or bad, just that if you're using it you probably know what you're getting into. In order to catch someone in a criminal

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Barry Shein
Back in the early days of the public internet we didn't require any id to create an account, just that you found a way to pay us. We had anonymous accts some of whom dropped by personally to pay their bill, some said hello but I usually didn't know their names and that's how they wanted it, I'd

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:17 , Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: Back in the early days of the public internet we didn't require any id to create an account, just that you found a way to pay us. We had anonymous accts some of whom dropped by personally to pay their bill, some said hello but

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Barry Shein
On November 29, 2012 at 11:45 patr...@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:17 , Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: It's funny, it's all illusion like show business. It's not hard to set up anonymous service, crap, just drop in at any wi-fi hotspot, many

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:58 , Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: On November 29, 2012 at 11:45 patr...@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:17 , Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: It's funny, it's all illusion like show business. It's not hard to set up anonymous

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Emily Ozols
Hi, I gotta ask and I'm sure someone would if I didn't, but how do we know this guy is legit? He's jumped up on a forum saying, Hey, police raided me, help. gib mone plz and failed to provide and reason as to how he's real and not just making it up. Maybe if there's a way to know this guy is

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: Do you think if the police found out child pr0n was being served from a starbux they wouldn't confiscate the equipment from that store? I think if they took the cash registers too the Starbucks lawyer would be in

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Warren Bailey
It's difficult to compare a guy in Austria to a multi-billion dollar corporation. Here in the US, the fed has charged 3 men with involuntary manslaughter for their parts in the Gulf of Mexico Rig explosion. BP received a slap on the wrist, and a decent (to us, not them) sized fine. On 11/29/12

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 29, 2012, at 13:57 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: Do you think if the police found out child pr0n was being served from a starbux they wouldn't confiscate the equipment from that store? I think

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Naslund, Steve
How would this be legally different than receiving the illegal content in an envelope and anonymously forwarding the envelope via the post office? I am pretty sure you are still liable since you were the sender. I realize that there are special postal regulations but I think that agreeing to

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Tom Beecher
Assuming it's true, it was bound to happen. Running anything , TOR or otherwise, that allows strangers to do whatever they want is just folly. People will spend time and money securing their home wireless so their neighbor can't steal their internet, but willingly allow strangers from

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Naslund, Steve
I think the best analogy I would use in defense is something like the pre-paid cellular phones that are sold. That is about the only anonymous communications service I can think of off the top of my head. Problem is that most people are not licensed carriers and may not be able to hide behind

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 01:14:08AM +1100, Emily Ozols wrote: Hi, I gotta ask and I'm sure someone would if I didn't, but how do we know this guy is legit? He's jumped up on a forum saying, Hey, police raided me, help. gib mone plz and failed to provide and reason as to how he's real and not

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Scott Berkman
Not sure if there is a legal precedent for this, but logically the difference is that there are no robots that I know of that can automatically receive and parse postal mail, then re-address and forward it. For a human to forward a letter takes a conscious manual action, even if they choose not

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread elijah wright
We had a guy (aka potential customer) inquire the other day about hosting a Tor exit on our infrastructure the other day; he disappeared fairly quickly when he figured out that we weren't just going to give him an endless supply of unmetered 10G bandwidth. I was looking forward to billing him.

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Nov 29, 2012, at 13:57 , William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: Do you think if the police found out child pr0n was being served from a

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net Mere conduit defense. (Please do not anyone mention common carrier status or the like, ISPs are _not_ common carriers.) Do you think if the police found out child pr0n was being served from a starbux they wouldn't

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net I think if they took the cash registers too the Starbucks lawyer would be in court an hour later with a motion to quash in one hand and an offer of full cooperation in the other. And if the sky were orange

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Tom Beecher tbeec...@localnet.com wrote: Assuming it's true, it was bound to happen. Running anything , TOR or otherwise, that allows strangers to do whatever they want is just folly. Such as, say, an Internet Service Provider business? ... -- -george

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Tom Beecher
Not really comparable. Speaking from a US point of view, ISPs has strong legal protections isolating them from culpability for the actions of their customers. I know internationally things are different, but here in the US the ISP doesn't get dinged, except in certain cases where they are

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Naslund, Steve
I think service providers are afforded special protections because the law recognizes their utility and the inability of the service provider to be responsible for the actions of all of their customers. The major problem is that not every individual has the same protections. A lot of ISPs are

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tom Beecher tbeec...@localnet.com wrote: Not really comparable. Speaking from a US point of view, ISPs has strong legal protections isolating them from culpability for the actions of their customers. I know internationally things are different, but here in

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote: ISPs also do not allow strangers to do whatever they want ISPs have responsibilities to act on DCMA notices and CALEA requests from law enforcement. These are things that Tor exit nodes are not capable of doing. If

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Tom Beecher
Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230 is the US law that has been interpreted to provide immunity to ISP for the actions of their users. Zeran v. America Online, Inc., 4th Circuit, 1997 Jane Doe v. America Online, Inc., 5th Circuit, 1997 Blumenthal v. Drudge, DC District, 1998 Green v.

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Naslund, Steve
The entire point of Tor is to be untraceable back to the source. Egress filters can prevent future abuse but do not provide for tracing back to the original source of offending conduct. They are not trying to stop the flow of the data in this case, they want the source in jail. If law

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote: The entire point of Tor is to be untraceable back to the source. Egress filters can prevent future abuse but do not provide for tracing back to the original source of offending conduct. They are not trying to stop

RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Naslund, Steve
1. Running open access wireless does not make you legally an ISP and if your open wireless is used to commit a crime you could be criminally negligent if you did not take reasonable care in the eyes of the court. 2. If I provide access to four or five friends, I am not an ISP and in fact I am

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread George Herbert
The entire question here is whether CALEA's covered entities definition and ISP common carrier (not exactly, but the commonly used term for CDA protections available, see earlier discussion) definitions overlap. The answer is no. It always has been no. Plenty of publishers and access providers

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Jim Mercer
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:19:19PM -0600, Naslund, Steve wrote: I think the best analogy I would use in defense is something like the pre-paid cellular phones that are sold. That is about the only anonymous communications service I can think of off the top of my head. Problem is that most

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:26:57 -0500 From: Tom Beecher tbeec...@localnet.com Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can. Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. 230 is the US law that has been interpreted to provide immunity to ISP for the actions

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Tom Beecher
47 U.S.C. 230 doesn't do much for child porn, no. However, PROTECT does. PROTECT spells out reporting, but also contains safe harbor provisions such that an ISP who didn't know that child porn was being transmitted across their network cannot be prosecuted for not knowing, only for not taking

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2012-11-29 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Naslund, Steve wrote: 1. Running open access wireless does not make you legally an ISP and if OK. your open wireless is used to commit a crime you could be criminally negligent if you did not take reasonable care in the eyes of the court. I believe this is incorrect

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