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RE: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Wieling)
Fri Nov 30 17:18:49 2012
From: Eric Wieling <EWieling@nyigc.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:11:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <50B92ACC.70104@alter3d.ca>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Kristolaitis [mailto:alter3d@alter3d.ca]=20
>Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 4:53 PM
>To: nanog@nanog.org
>Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help i=
f you can.
>
> (Note: I don't mean to imply that all cops are power hungry=20
>mouth-breathers intent on destroying the lives of citizens. Most cops=20
>are fundamentally good people and do a great job. But like every other pr=
ofession, there ARE bad cops out there, and it's within the realm of possib=
ility that you'll deal with one of them one day.)
Power corrupts and cops have power. What scares me is that there is no w=
ay *I* can tell the difference between a cop who accepts free coffee from t=
he local caf=E9 and a cop who will lie to get what they want.