Careful running a TOR exit node!

[sober]

your first amendment right to what exactly?

No, it isn't against the law to possess pictures or videos of a murder or of rape. Only child porn, it's treated as a special case. This is a problem which has been acknowledges by members of the EFF.

Even being falsely accused of involvement with child pornography can end a persons career and ruin their life. This is a big stick that both corporations and governments wave around to silence viewpoints they don't like. I've watched it happen in Washington DC and the surrounding suburbs. These exceptional laws on child pornography are being used to actively restrict First Amendment rights.

[Mr-Protocol]

No, it isn't against the law to possess pictures or videos of a murder or of rape. Only child porn, it's treated as a special case. This is a problem which has been acknowledges by members of the EFF.

Even being falsely accused of involvement with child pornography can end a persons career and ruin their life. This is a big stick that both corporations and governments wave around to silence viewpoints they don't like. I've watched it happen in Washington DC and the surrounding suburbs. These exceptional laws on child pornography are being used to actively restrict First Amendment rights.

Yes, it is illegal to possess pictures or videos of murder or rape. It falls under revictimization (Federal). In my state, even just viewing the content is illegal.

[Sitwon]

your first amendment right to what exactly?

In DC I've seen it used to silence political or commercial opponents. You advocate for a change that is not politically or financially advantageous to someone else, they use fear mongering of 3rd-party child porn charges to silence you or attack support for your ideas. It's one of the biggest legal hurdles facing open access advocates in DC.

[Mr-Protocol]

In DC I've seen it used to silence political or commercial opponents. You advocate for a change that is not politically or financially advantageous to someone else, they use fear mongering of 3rd-party child porn charges to silence you or attack support for your ideas. It's one of the biggest legal hurdles facing open access advocates in DC.

I'm pretty sure child porn isn't used as a weapon in politics... I think you are letting conspiracy theories get the best of you.

[Zephyr]

Not to mention anything they find can and will be used against you in a court of law, whether its "hacking paraphernalia" or not, if you have anything on there regardless, once they take it, they can pin anything they want on you, with or without reason. As much as I love my country I truly HATE with a capital FUCKING hate, the police state mentality that we have become in the USA. From the formation of Homeland Security to the Patriot Act, to the secret FISA courts, drone hits on Americans being assassinated without trial or due process, we live in a time and place that is sad for our children to grow up in, and if things don't change, it will not only get worst, our children will become conditioned to it to the point that they think this is normal behavior. FISA and its original intentions, are now domestic spying at its finest, because we the people, are now the enemies of the state.

I couldn't have said this better myself. What surprises and appalls me almost more than police state itself is the fact that, despite the OVERWHELMING evidence of its impending and growing emergence, the majority of the the masses still seem to be stone-cold, deaf dumb and blind to it. And no matter how hard you try to wake them up, they prefer to stay in their comfortable dumbed-down slumber. That's even more horrifying. How many videos, bits of news and blogs do they need to see before they wake the hell up? Certainly it must be a rationalization thing ..... "it won't happen here." "It won't happen to me." "It's not as bad as they make it sound" ........ while one of their loved ones it being either detained or sent down the river for some ridiculous "offense" against the state. What's more, I've been harping on this kind of stuff since the 90s. Somewhat more obscurely but still harping, when everyone thought it was sheer lunacy to do so. NOW, even mainstream personalites are coming out and opening admitting to as much ... and guess what .... most of the sheep STILL refuse to believe it. Must be some sort of "stupidity" survival mechnism. Save your sanity at the cost of your life.

[Zephyr]

http://raided4tor.cryto.net/

Kinda like running an open access point, the feds are knocking down your door for what someone else does with your internet address.

Don't know where you're located and don't want to know, but consider TOR compromised by the US government (Echelon and its data-munching offshoots). Not only are exit nodes compromised, so are entry nodes. Whatever you're doing, if they want you, an ETE timing attack is trivial. This may not be the case with other governments. At the very least TOR should be stepped up to an optional 4 hop circuit with a user set variable for latency, if so desired, and a good amount of trash traffic. Understandably there probably aren't enough users to make this effective.

[Mr-Protocol]

Tor can be broken apart pretty easily. Combine all the research that's out there and it's very do-able. Except you will be having some legal issues lol.

[Swede78]

Just read through this thread today - 25 June 2013 - I wonder how or if the sentiment has changed at all in light of the Prism story - Especially how many of us have been the lone cry in the dark about the overstepping of many governments on the privacy of their citizens.

Being a 22 year veteran of the U.S. military, I am especially concerned over the erosion of our many "rights" in the pursuit of false security and the development of a police state attitude. While Tor is flawed in the sense exit nodes are monitored, seemingly "innocent" operators being guilty of nothing more than idealism being prosecuted for crimes against the "State", what alternatives does one have to protect one's own privacy in their daily pursuit of happiness or commerce on the "net"?

[Lost In Cyberia]

As a tor relay, and exit node operator, I understand the risks, and will still continue to run it. I just hope the information that passes through my wires can help someone out there, and do as much good as possible. I say this because I know for each person it helps in the truly altruistic sense, another 5 helps pass illegal content.

What I do agree with though, is that possession of something should not be the same as producing the illegal content. While I would never condone illegal acts and the sick and depraved sexual exploitation of children, I'm not quite sure that one who owns the content should be charged with the same as one who created the content.

[Zombie_Testicle]

i cried a little once seeing your before and after pics; that might justify me not reading anything else.

[Lost In Cyberia]

Running an exit node, should I encrypt all my drives with something like truecrypt? How strong is their encryption, and even if my stuff were seized, if it were all encrypted, could I be forced to provide the codes to unlock it? What are some good full drive / partition encryption software?