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Tor. The Final (Privacy/Anonymity) Frontier. Now under attack at your local Stasi {cough} I mean German police station. The allegation? What else? Child Porn (R). It's Germany's 9/11, and it's all about the children right? If I was a kid and informed enough to know better, I would be really steamed about being used as a pawn for the police state, wouldn't you?

Here's a snippet of the news on Slashdot. Check the interesting comments too!


"Servers participating in the TOR anonymizing network have been seized by public prosecutors during a child porn crackdown in Germany. TOR provides anonymity for clients and servers by redirecting traffic through a network of volunteer-operated relays; the German prosecutors may have been trying to locate an anonymous server by examining the logs of the captured relays."

The Libertarian Action Network runs a couple of Exit-Nodes and a hidden service torsite on the West Coast of the US. We get angry about this, but we don't get scared. The more nodes that go up, the harder it will be to shut down onion routing for good. Do your part and Download your copy of Tor today! NOTE: If you're afraid of being an exit node, you can still help by setting your server to act as a "middle-man" node only.