<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2007 5:51 PM, TOR-Admin (gpfTOR1) <<a href="mailto:tor-admin@privacyfoundation.de">tor-admin@privacyfoundation.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Now, I have to say, that I am only a tor-op, not a developer.<br><br>But may be, your tor node routes only data retention free protocols<br>like instant messaging..... You have to log nothing and you do not<br>need the realtime interface for communication data (ยง100g StPO).
</blockquote></div><br>Hello,<br><br>I reat a lot about this lately and as far as I can tell<br>instant-messaging is nothing short of electronic mail.<br>Thus it is far from data-retention-free.<br><br>The only loophole I could find was to not offer your service
<br>publicly. Having a foundation that you can become a member of<br>(for free) and providing your own tor-network strictly for members,<br>that exits via the normal tor-network inbstead of directly to the<br>internet seems to be feasable.
<br>Maybe this can be combined with the existing VPNs of free<br>wireless-comunities you have over there. I heard of one named<br>"freifunk" that seems to be pretty huge.<br><br>A.Y.<br>