Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2015-03-09 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/4/2014 11:37 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: I will pick up this thread only after we have seen a written statement by the court. Anyone (not just Moritz) know what ever happened in this court case? Was prosecution dropped? A legal opinion (verdict) reached? -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-08 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: On 7/7/2014 6:04 PM, I wrote: As for freedom of speech Australia has none legislated and does have severe laws against sedition. What other developed country can match that for discouraging speech? Well, 'Stralia is a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/8/14, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: On 7/7/2014 10:04 PM, C B wrote: But it is often said, if you do not know what your rights are, you have none. Rights have to be asserted. Strenuously. Thousands of people have been more than willing to go to prison to assert various rights so

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-08 Thread Paul Syverson
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:30:07AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: On 7/7/2014 6:04 PM, I wrote: As for freedom of speech Australia has none legislated and does have severe laws against sedition. What other developed

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/7/2014 6:04 PM, I wrote: It appears that it is specifically unwise to rubbish the court while subject to it. As for freedom of speech Australia has none legislated and does have severe laws against sedition. What other developed country can match that for discouraging speech? Well,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/8/14, I beatthebasta...@inbox.com wrote: It appears that it is specifically unwise to rubbish the court while subject to it. I think this is a valid point in any jurisdiction, and also speaks to the difficulty in having a lower court sanction itself - thus superior courts. As for freedom

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-07 Thread Juan
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:32:04 -0500 Joe Btfsplk joebtfs...@gmx.com wrote: Sedition and freedom of speech for political religious views can overlap. In the U.S., you can criticize the gov't - usually without fear, as long as it's not promoting anarchy, inciting a riot, etc. It usually

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-07 Thread C B
:35 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court     you can criticize the gov't - usually without fear, as long as it's not promoting anarchy         so you dont have freedom of speech     It usually doesn't do any good, but you can criticize.     so

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-07 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/7/2014 10:04 PM, C B wrote: But it is often said, if you do not know what your rights are, you have none. Rights have to be asserted. Strenuously. Thousands of people have been more than willing to go to prison to assert various rights so that everyone else will have them. Mostly, you

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
To no.thing_to-hide - the link you provided is inaccessible for me. It gives a message: This page was not retrieved from its original location over a secure connection. Not sure if there's a way around it, or maybe provide the original page let people translate it themselves? On 7/4/2014

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-06 Thread no . thing_to-hide
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the notice. The German Heise publisher provides good information to IT-related topics, but in German. I tried my Google-translate-link just before, and it worked via Tor, perhaps you could switch the exit? Anyway, here ist the original

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-06 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Thanks. I've not used online translating sites for larger documents or whole websites. For this document, I tried a few other well known translators besides google translate - in an attempt to avoid anything google. Are there online translators that work for larger documents besides google

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-06 Thread C B
, 2014 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court Thanks for the notice. The German Heise publisher provides good information to IT-related topics, but in German. I tried my Google-translate-link just before, and it worked via Tor, perhaps you could switch

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/5/14, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: The legal FAQ is a legal FAQ. It is still completely legal in all countries we know of. It is not the how you should behave and what is the worst case scenario FAQ: That is https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorExitGuidelines

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-05 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/05/2014 07:30 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I'm not sure the TorExitGuidelines provide an adequate Behaviour FAQ, in the hindsight of recent events. Again: There is no hindsight of recent events. There just can't be, because the court opinion has not been released yet. It has always been

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/5/14, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: On 07/05/2014 07:30 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: HE WAS NOT CONVICTED BECAUSE OF RUNNING AN EXIT. Every single character of any of the emails in this thread are PURELY ASSUMPTIONS. Thanks. - Node operators (relays, entries and exits) are

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-05 Thread Benedikt Gollatz
On 07/05/2014 05:28 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 7/4/2014 3:02 PM, no.thing_to-h...@cryptopathie.eu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tor! Running an internal relay in Graz since 7/2013, where William Weber's appartment was raided in 2012, when some idiot misused his

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/03/2014 07:14 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: Perhaps out of fear of legal liability, Tor Project doesn't seem to have what would be very helpful for relay operators - guides, documents - even access to basic legal advice, of how to best avoid legal issues to begin with.

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread MacLemon
Hi! On 04 Jul 2014, at 15:31, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: I have talked to multiple lawyers, and this case would be very easy to defend against. William was sadly unable or unwilling to communicate properly, and he's not willing/able to put it to a fight. It is a sad situation

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread no . thing_to-hide
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tor! Running an internal relay in Graz since 7/2013, where William Weber's appartment was raided in 2012, when some idiot misused his exit for illegal stuff, I became interested in his case. But I know it only from the newspapers. The raid

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/3/2014 2:23 PM, C B wrote: I agree that collecting stories about why/how I use Tor is useful, but I disagree that any special education or warning should be needed before setting up an exit node. Setting up an exit node is simply providing another IP that can be used for traffic and

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread no . thing_to-hide
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I fully agree with Joe! Running an exit can get you in serious legal trouble, because Tor /and all other anonymity services/ will always be misused for illegal activities. Every interested operator must make his personal moral trade-off and come to a

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/5/14, no.thing_to-h...@cryptopathie.eu no.thing_to-h...@cryptopathie.eu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tor! Running an internal relay in Graz since 7/2013, where William Weber's appartment was raided in 2012, when some idiot misused his exit for illegal

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/4/2014 3:02 PM, no.thing_to-h...@cryptopathie.eu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tor! Running an internal relay in Graz since 7/2013, where William Weber's appartment was raided in 2012, when some idiot misused his exit for illegal stuff, I became interested in

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-04 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/04/2014 10:56 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: *No*, we aren't aware of anyone being sued or prosecuted in the United States just for running a Tor relay. Further, we believe that running a Tor relay --- including an exit relay that allows people to anonymously send and receive traffic --- is

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread C B
From: Roman Mamedov r...@romanrm.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 03:54:32 +0300 s7r s...@sky-ip.org wrote

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread Lunar
MacLemon: German language Austrian Legalese background: Austrian E-Commerce Law §15: Ausschluss der Verantwortlichkeit bei Zwischenspeicherungen http://j.mp/1iYdg4L § 15. Ein Diensteanbieter, der von einem Nutzer eingegebene Informationen in einem Kommunikationsnetz übermittelt, ist für

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: On 07/02/2014 11:00 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: Unfortunately he doesn't seem to want to take this further, so the ruling will stand. It's his choice, but it could be a very bad deterrent to other potential exit node

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread Geoff Down
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: On 07/02/2014 11:00 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: Unfortunately he doesn't seem to want to take this further, so the ruling will stand. It's his choice, but it could be a very bad deterrent to other potential exit

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/3/2014 4:16 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: On 07/02/2014 11:00 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: Unfortunately he doesn't seem to want to take this further, so the ruling will

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
(Thread start: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-July/033573.html ) On 7/3/14, Anders Andersson pipat...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: On 07/02/2014 11:00 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: Unfortunately he doesn't seem

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/3/2014 10:34 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Agreed, great news. In hindsight, it is clear that we as a community have an interest to build a resource of amicus curiae briefs - friend of the court briefs. So PLEASE make moves in the direction of contributing and collecting documents which may

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-03 Thread C B
3, 2014 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court On 7/3/2014 10:34 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Agreed, great news. In hindsight, it is clear that we as a community have an interest to build a resource of amicus curiae briefs - friend of the court

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread MacLemon
Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 03:49, C B cb...@yahoo.com wrote: in no way makes Montblac, Southworth, or Smith's Stationary the least bit responsible for the bank robbery. This ruling is a clear lack of understanding of how the Internet and Tor work. I totally agree. It contradicts Austrian

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread bauta
We'll see how that continues. https://rdns.im/court-official-statement-part-1 Apparently the operator is in need of a substantial heads up and financial boost. From what has been reported the judgement seems to be based on a misapplied article in order to justify a conviction. --

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/2/2014 2:54 PM, MacLemon wrote: Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 03:49, C B cb...@yahoo.com wrote: in no way makes Montblac, Southworth, or Smith's Stationary the least bit responsible for the bank robbery. This ruling is a clear lack of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Michael O Holstein
That is nonsense. Why not arrest the owners of a stainless steel blade factory, because some people stab other people with those blades. Okay .. try giving knives away anonymously out of the back of your garage and let us know how you make out. tl;dr .. don't tell the world to use TOR for

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread C B
: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:42 PM,  ba...@clovermail.net wrote: There are little details on this case: https://network23.org/blackoutaustria/2014/07/01/to-whom-it-may-concern-english-version

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/2/2014 11:10 AM, Michael O Holstein wrote: That is nonsense. Why not arrest the owners of a stainless steel blade factory, because some people stab other people with those blades. Okay .. try giving knives away anonymously out of the back of your garage and let us know how you make out.

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Martin Kepplinger
Am 2014-07-02 17:56, schrieb s7r: On 7/2/2014 2:54 PM, MacLemon wrote: Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 03:49, C B cb...@yahoo.com wrote: in no way makes Montblac, Southworth, or Smith's Stationary the least bit responsible for the bank robbery. This ruling is a clear lack of understanding of how

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/2/2014 7:10 PM, Michael O Holstein wrote: That is nonsense. Why not arrest the owners of a stainless steel blade factory, because some people stab other people with those blades. Okay .. try giving knives away anonymously out of the back of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread MacLemon
Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 17:56, s7r s...@sky-ip.org wrote: Signed PGP part On 7/2/2014 2:54 PM, MacLemon wrote: The subject of this attracted my attention. Are we talking here about a clear law, written black on white which states that it is illegal to run Tor relays (or any kind of

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/02/2014 12:42 AM, ba...@clovermail.net wrote: There are little details on this case: https://network23.org/blackoutaustria/2014/07/01/to-whom-it-may-concern-english-version/ Does the Tor project has a defense support fund or a list of committed pro bono lawyers in different countries

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Anders Andersson
Unfortunately he doesn't seem to want to take this further, so the ruling will stand. It's his choice, but it could be a very bad deterrent to other potential exit node operators in Austria. On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: On 07/02/2014 12:42 AM,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread C B
To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 17:56, s7r s...@sky-ip.org wrote: Signed PGP part On 7/2/2014 2:54 PM, MacLemon wrote: The subject of this attracted my

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 7/2/2014 2:21 PM, MacLemon wrote: Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 17:56, s7r s...@sky-ip.org wrote: Signed PGP part On 7/2/2014 2:54 PM, MacLemon wrote: The subject of this attracted my attention. Are we talking here about a clear law, written black on white which states that it is illegal to run

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread s7r
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/3/2014 3:03 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 7/2/2014 2:21 PM, MacLemon wrote: Hey! On 02 Jul 2014, at 17:56, s7r s...@sky-ip.org wrote: Signed PGP part On 7/2/2014 2:54 PM, MacLemon wrote: The subject of this attracted my attention. Are we

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-02 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 07/02/2014 11:00 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: Unfortunately he doesn't seem to want to take this further, so the ruling will stand. It's his choice, but it could be a very bad deterrent to other potential exit node operators in Austria. We are in contact with William, and quite possibly

[tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-01 Thread bauta
There are little details on this case: https://network23.org/blackoutaustria/2014/07/01/to-whom-it-may-concern-english-version/ Does the Tor project has a defense support fund or a list of committed pro bono lawyers in different countries for such cases?

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court

2014-07-01 Thread C B
for the traffic that was delivered.   -- Christopher Booth From: ba...@clovermail.net ba...@clovermail.net To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:42 PM Subject: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower court There are little