-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Zack Weinberg:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Tyler Durden <virii@enn.lu> wrote:
I just wanted to let you know that Washington sent us a subpoena regarding one of our exit nodes in Romania
Just FYI, "Washington" doesn't appear to have anything to do with this. The subpoena is on the letterhead of an office of Cook County, Illinois, which is the locality containing the city of Chicago. Per http://www.cookcountyil.gov/office-of-the-independent-inspector-general/
this office investigates misconduct by county officials.
This matters because, first, this is probably a tiny little outfit with little or no clue about either the Internet or international law.
As a resident of Cook Country I can safely say it's not a small locality, but I'm sure their knowledge about international law is quite low.
They *should have* hired an international lawyer when they saw they'd need to talk to someone operating out of Romania and/or Luxembourg, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that they didn't.
And they've probably never even heard of Tor before.
I know the Chicago Police claim they don't know what Tor is. http://www.muckrock.com/foi/chicago-169/chicago-police-use-of-tor-15392/
Second, the incident which triggered the investigation, whatever it is, is probably quite minor. (This is backed up by their asking for one IP address active at a single point in time.) It would have been booted up to the state or federal level if it were any kind of serious. For both those reasons, I would rate the odds of them actually bothering to jump through all the necessary legal hoops to get a court order binding on a foreign national as slim to none.
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