Stephen Bain wrote:
On 9/27/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Brave German Tor exit node operator arrested.
I have sympathy for the guy because the police had trouble understanding his explanation, but really, he put himself in that situation by allowing random people to send bomb threats through his computer.
I really don't think he "put himself in that situation", any more than the ISP of the person sending the bomb threat did. He's simply offering pass-through service, the same as the many intermediate steps this message will travel through before it reaches you. If I were posting a bomb threat, that would be my fault, not the operators of this mailing list, my ISP, the backbone providers, and so on. It would be impossible for a human to monitor and approve such a volume of traffic even if they wished to.