[WikiEN-l] The price of providing privacy and free speech

[Monahon, Peter B.]

>> ...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...

Versus what ... sending bomb threats through ... the MAIL?  So, are you
suggesting, equivalently, that we arrest the postal workers in their
homes, confiscate their belongings, because they delivered the
Unabomber's packages?

Doesn't anyone understand responsibility?  (Start here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility and get back to us in a few
day's time!)

From
<<http://www.cnet.com/surveillance-state/8301-13739_1-9779225-46.html?ta
g=head>>

"...Tor is a privacy tool designed to allow users to communicate and
browse anonymously on the Internet.  It's endorsed by the Electronic
Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/ and other civil liberties groups
as a method for whistle blowers and human rights workers to communicate
with journalists.  Tor provides anonymous Web-browsing software to
hundreds of thousands of users around the world, according to its
developers.  The largest numbers of users are in the United States, the
European Union, and China..."

"...The victim here was a guy accepting risk to give people...ability to
practice free speech.  You are not at risk, but he is/was..."