== Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers ==

Austrian man is latest to be held responsible for traffic passing through Tor

An Austrian operator of Tor servers—that were used to anonymously route huge 
amounts of traffic over the Internet—has been charged with distributing child 
pornography. This comes after police detected illegal images traversing one of 
the nodes he maintains.

William Weber, a 20-year-old IT administrator in Graz, Austria, said nine 
officers searched his home on Wednesday after presenting him with a court order 
charging him with distribution and possible production of child pornography. 
The crimes carry penalties of as many as 10 years in prison. Police from the 
Styrian Landeskriminalamt, which has jurisdiction over the Austrian state of 
Styria, confiscated 20 computers as well as a game console, iPads, external 
hard drives, USB thumb drives, and other electronics. Evidence cited in the 
document showed that one of sevenTor Project exit nodes he operated transported 
illegal images.

[…]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/

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He already has a lawyer and accepts donations for his legal expenses: 
http://raided4tor.cryto.net/donate/

PS: He ran ZhangPoland1, ZhangUkraine1, ZhangCzechRepublic1, ZhangAustria1, …

Robert
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