Re: [tor-talk] Tor's reputation problem with pedo, some easy steps the community could take

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 08:51:32PM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote:
> However, given the nature of onion sites, I don't know how the police
> investigators could track and take down the source without defeating the
> anonymity of Tor.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-September/021198.html
https://www.bof.nl/2012/10/18/dutch-proposal-to-search-and-destroy-foreign-computers/

> Perhaps the authorities already do and leave *us* in the dark. :-)

The problem, as explained to me by several Dutch policemen, is that
taking down a few individual sites doesn't actually work. That is,
it doesn't reduce the number of criminals (or crimes) in the world.
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trip-report-tor-trainings-dutch-and-belgian-police
These are social problems, and as such aren't really amenable to technical
solutions -- you quickly get to the "well, then let's ban cameras" step.
And at that point it doesn't make much sense to have a thread about it on
tor-talk either.

--Roger

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