Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber) - LowEndBox
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  • BadRS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    1 year ago

    It’s encrypted, encrypted many times over, it’s completely anonymous… as long as you’re staying inside the network. An exit node connects to the regular internet and that’s what’s going to start showing up on logs. This was completely secure for the people actually dealing in cp.

    I can’t believe this stuck, it’s the equivalent of arresting a business owner because someone distributed cp while connected to their Wi-Fi.

    • wackster_fapster@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      CP laws (in the US and probably other places) fall under a doctrine called strict liability, which basically means that you’re guilty regardless of intent or even knowledge of an offense.

      It’s fucked.

      • BadRS@lemmy.worldEnglish
        514·
        1 year ago

        There isn’t a crime worse than hurting children. Does that mean we should allow law enforcement infinity leeway to punish these crimes and persue the offenders? I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don’t care how you stop it.

        Is hosting a tor exit nods with the knowledge that doing so might help pedophiles hurting children? That feels like too many layers to me. Too esoteric.

        • TechnoBabble@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don’t care how you stop it.

          Is this satire? Because that’s exactly the excuse government has been giving for hundreds of years, to take your freedoms away.

          It’s never about the children. The Catholic church operating with near total immunity, after all these millennia of abuse, is proof of that.

          • BadRS@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            You’re right and I agree completely. My ACAB hat slips when they bring up kinds. Which is, of course, their intent.

    • HousePanther@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
      142·
      1 year ago

      It’s quite possible he had either a public defender or a poor attorney. I am friends with an attorney who works with the poor, indigent, and people otherwise unable to fight for themselves. I help him out for free when he has questions related to technology and IT. I really need to read up on Tor because there might come a time when I’ll need to assist my friend in a similar matter. It’s quite chilling that the state could potentially punish a business owner for providing a free service like WiFi. I have another friend who runs a the neighborhood sports bar and she offers WiFi to her customers. I think I need to implement some content filtration for her so as to prevent her from potentially getting blamed for a crime she did not commit.

    • sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Not completely secure. If the same entity controls the entry and exit nodes (any maybe also relay?), it is my understanding that traffic can be traced back. Low probability, yes, but not completey.