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Zack Weinberg: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Tyler Durden <vi...@enn.lu> > wrote: >> I just wanted to let you know that Washington sent us a subpoena >> regarding one of our exit nodes in Romania > > Just FYI, "Washington" doesn't appear to have anything to do with > this. The subpoena is on the letterhead of an office of Cook > County, Illinois, which is the locality containing the city of > Chicago. Per > http://www.cookcountyil.gov/office-of-the-independent-inspector-general/ > > this office investigates misconduct by county officials. > > This matters because, first, this is probably a tiny little outfit > with little or no clue about either the Internet or international > law. As a resident of Cook Country I can safely say it's not a small locality, but I'm sure their knowledge about international law is quite low. > They *should have* hired an international lawyer when they saw > they'd need to talk to someone operating out of Romania and/or > Luxembourg, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that they > didn't. > And they've probably never even heard of Tor before. I know the Chicago Police claim they don't know what Tor is. http://www.muckrock.com/foi/chicago-169/chicago-police-use-of-tor-15392/ > Second, the incident which triggered the investigation, whatever it > is, is probably quite minor. (This is backed up by their asking > for one IP address active at a single point in time.) It would > have been booted up to the state or federal level if it were any > kind of serious. For both those reasons, I would rate the odds of > them actually bothering to jump through all the necessary legal > hoops to get a court order binding on a foreign national as slim to > none. ATB //Brian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVOK1xAAoJEFjBjkteF9VaV2EP/3OrGZqHMdqWccR0Qkrt80rc vw9RgIAtnhUfZVLlt8Y/RNhpSUOwrBf2gFxcc48zN3/Llad1ybF1PDFQym516ntK RLRmGDf945qRxTsApXCN9WjRD0iMqyfQuq/NddTYKCMeMZadYW9MoUNe3md8wwKg feeYNpCRmrTTh1Q7gRKYa4dRS6jLrNqNv5o/pL3jp5OlX8nLz+LyJxNVopZ2khAq T4B51NOD0D5rLJ8cEQf528dmAM6QipUvtY3r5mVqb7VRO5NJuAxsRCnql6qTi68h FIeLRZh44miY/vOS//dPlSFyb/h3ECVGCMH3ngtaJ5LLkAUXXWc8XYiEeDFyUrxg O5/pUy9uo4ZRz9UXU7ZEpsttw2Gs1GDc7bRRrL4aHp8OGr+85p493aBqyixmr16d Wz2lUdVioVBO5sj7rG+QXSc5b4Wp1/jKOWszKUNjX02AMnpe21idQrS0qn9kzSNP Gsi8XyFP/08m+n2weTZ9W000uznjMCKWvWlOfJtTyo9oB23cZ7g/4Rs1j4wQR4W4 8/iuQFwjx3OipdxjzP4g3HwYLYeFT5DECVEzWtqx2LaIMI6ObTjDOnyO/PDIqzWA YSK8hUqCKI6SqJE5l1kP4bzDsbQaY13nxoK0uVbW35h01FpHRIjyIXrFJorTqjrT 8c3B2zNha+ogBOljvYtJ =uUdm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
