So far in US laws, proxy owners can't be held responsibile for enabling illegal activities unless they endorse or encourage them. For instance, if you started a CGI proxy for a fee that offered "complete protection" and "easy way to trade credit cards" you would end up in jail.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan D. Proulx</b> <<a href="mailto:jon@csail.mit.edu">jon@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>So the summary on drives is:<br><br>* There's no point in being overly paranoid about wiping these because
<br>$they already got them and can be presumed to have a copy if they<br>want it, the only point in wiping is the removal of potential<br>malware, any reforam will do that.<br><br>* Given sufficient time and money only physical destruction is
<br>sufficient protection (googling : destruction of classified disks<br>SOP : gives the US Military position on this, presumably they know<br>what they can recover...)<br><br>ON the topic of what *could* happen:<br><br>* The worst case is you could be the subject of an "extrodinary
<br>rendition" and spend the last painful month of your life in a dark<br>hole.<br><br>* The most likely case is you'll be questioned, searched, and possibly<br>breifly detained while the cops fugure out you really can't help
<br>them even if you want to.<br><br><br>My personal anectdote about police and TOR. I was running a very<br>popular exit node (was usually top three at the time), I was contected<br>by a Sheriff from North Carolina (for those out side the US, this is
<br>not known as a particularly lenient, or computer savvy jurisdiction).<br>It seems someone was commitiing a bit of credit card fraud through my<br>exit node. I explained how tor worked (mixing a bunch of stuff<br>togather repeatedly with no logs), and gave URLs to documentation.
<br>Basicly the standard form letter on the phone. I never heard about it<br>again. Law enforcement is used to leads that go no where, most do.<br><br>I may have getten the benefit of some doubt due to my position (sys<br>
admin at major comp sci lab, and the node was on that network not a<br>private connection), but I doubt it.<br><br>-Jon<br><br></blockquote></div><br>