Thanks for the information, guys. I'm teaching a digital forensics class and trying to clean up these tangling laws.
Xinwen Fu On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:18:41PM -0400, Xinwen Fu wrote: > > I'm just asking the legal liability of running Tor exits and making it > > clear. I don't bother with modifying somebody's traffic. > > > > Basically, you are saying once we run exits, the computers are not our > own > > computers any more: > > > > Tor exit operators == ISP, from the perspective of laws. > > > > What if somebody attacks my computer running a Tor exit via Tor? I have > to > > call police since I cannot check the content of the attack traffic? > > The issue as I understand it is that when you are not an endpoint of > the Tor flows (meaning they go from some Tor user to some destination > like a website), looking at the content of the flows is wiretapping. > > If you are the endpoint of one of the flows, then you can look at the > content of that flow (but still not at the content of other flows). > > As Greg said, I'd suggest you read the legal faq. I'd be happy to > introduce you to some lawyers who can help explain further details. Paul > Ohm (Colorado) and Marcia Hofmann (EFF) come to mind. > > There was also a panel at PETS this year on the ethics of research on > the Tor network. Eventually some notes from it will find their way onto > the wiki, but consensus results for researchers like "don't wiretap" > shouldn't surprise you. > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >
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