On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:37:01PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Oh you do, with various eastern European scam artists and gangsters using
When I ran a Tor exit node, I was cited to local police station three times, in order to testify on the case to the BKA. All of these citations but one (allegations of trafficking in kiddie pr0n, I'm not at all sure this wasn't fabricated) were trivial. Some guy in Berlin who doesn't own a computer got an invoice (with several mistakes, such as wrong banking information) for less than a 100 EUR for a company offering USENET access. Excuse me? That is worth wasting my and the local policeman's time over? Don't they have Russian mafia, or Ndrangheta guys to catch? Oh, I forgot, they're cutting funds for the police, so since they don't have cars, weapons or manpower they only can keep the Internet safe from terrorists. (Just yesterday one of them Internet turdorrists almost blew up my router with a pound of plastique he sneaked in via TCP/IP -- I was lucky it wasn't plutonium). > those phones to run scams, buy and sell cars on "escrow" etc. Among other > things. I can mail anthrax envelopes, but this doesn't mean we have to shoot all postmen on sight. Just because kiddiefiddlers trade files it doesn't mean we should put Juniper and Corning CEOs to jail. Just because crystal meth is paid in money it doesn't mean Bernanke should do life witout parole. And frankly that's just a smokescreen. The real reasons are never being mentioned, but we already know what they are. It's not about catching petty crooks. It's all about cattle control, which largely works by intimidation. Baaah. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
