Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:22:48PM +0300, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
It seems that way. I run more than one node in Germany and I
don't have
Which Bundesland? Don't try this in Bavaria...
As I understand it, Frankfurt and Berlin are nice places to run a
server
or two.
a problem. It's a sad state of affairs that people are being
forced to
shut down their nodes. I'm sorry the police are questioning you,
I do
hope that they'll eventually understand that they have nothing to
gain
by doing this.
Of course they have plenty to win. No Tor exit nodes in Germany --
no problem.
They can't win that battle. Tor is already adapting to stop
blocking and
this has an added benefit, it makes a great deal more nodes to seize.
Then, iterate across the world.
I'd like to make a comment about living in a free country but I've yet
to really find one. I have some protection under the law but I realize
that it's only as good as my ability to pay for lawyers.
And/or make anonymizing services illegal, so only criminals have
anonymity.
This sounds like you need to ensure your government doesn't take this
route. Or find a strong economic case for anonymous communication.
And there's a very good chance this is going to work.
I want to doubt you but I think it's possible. A serious crackdown
could
happen to a specific piece of software or protocol. It happened in
Japan
with Winny, right?
I think that Tor is different but only time will tell.
Regards,
Jacob