Tor raid [was: "cease and desist" from my vps provider...]

Matthew pumpkin at cotse.net
Fri Feb 4 14:20:20 UTC 2011


> It happened 4 years ago... they came, took every hardware they could
> find, took more than a year to analyze it, they found nothing (they
> were looking for child pornography - someone downloaded via my tor
> exit from swoopshare) and gave my hardware back after 2 years.
> The trial is still ongoing, but there has only been 1 day in court
> (about a year ago), the judge acknowledged that he doesnt understand
> what we explained about Tor and such, said he wants an assessor, and
> we'll see again in about 8 weeks (a year ago!).

So are you suing the police if the case is continuing but your hardware has 
been returned?


> My lawyer now asked 2 or 3 times at the court, when&  how we'll
> continue, but didn't get a response yet. Doesn't seem like the judge
> wants to carry on fast.
>
> (I also got letters from the federal police asking who had my Tor IP
> at a specific point in time, got heard at the police (You are not
> required to say anything at the german police, but I preferred to take
> a laptop there and show them what Tor is and how it works - they
> appreciated that [and I lowered my risk of getting raided another time
> ;) ]) and such things).
>
> morphium
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