Bit of justice, all charges dropped against Tor-operator

[Robert Marquardt]

Good luck!

Robert

On Nov 29, 2008, at 12:06 PM, M wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> As I informed this maillist my companys servers (including finnish
> tor-exit-node) were taken by the finnisih police circa january 2008.  
> They
> were very rude and called me a pedophile etc. Really nice to know that
> police is your friend :P...
>
> Few days ago I got a letter from the department of justice, they are  
> not
> going to press any charges 'cause they finally realised that my  
> server was
> just relaying traffic and that is not a crime. I've been waiting that
> letter for many months and I'm really glad they finally made a wise
> decision.
>
> Now I'm going to consult my lawyer and possibly going to demand
> compensation for my losses. I had to buy new servers, restore  
> everything
> from backups, help the "Central Crime Police" (KRP) because I was'nt  
> using
> Windows but Debian GNU/Linux and full encryption (aes-cbc- 
> essiv:sha256).
> Also all the sites, domains and email-services I hosted were down  
> about 48
> hours and customers do not like that.
>
> Wish me luck =)
>
> M
>
>