[115493] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Wed Jun 24 17:50:01 2009
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:48:58 -0400
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090624214153.GS51443@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: trelane@trelane.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>> sadly, naively turning up tor to help folk who wish to be anonymous in
>> hard times gets one a lot of assertive email from self-important people
>> who wear formal clothes.
>>
>> folk who learn this the hard way may find a pointer passed to me by smb
>> helpful, <http://www.chrisbrunner.com/?p=119>.
>>
>
> If bittorrent of copyrighted material is the most illegal thing you
> helped facilitate while running tor, and all you got was an assertive
> e-mail because of it, you should consider yourself extremely lucky.
>
> Anonymity against privacy invasion and for political causes sure sounds
> like a great concept, but in reality it presents too tempting a target
> for abuse. If you choose to open up your internet connection to anyone
> who wants to use it, you should be prepared to be held accountable for
> what those anonymous people do with it. I'm sure you don't just sell
> transit to any spammer who comes along without researching them a little
> first, why should this be any different.
You might also consider asserting your right to common carrier immunity
under 47USC230.
Andrew
