[tor-talk] Austrian man is latest to be held responsible for traffic passing through Tor

[Robert Marquardt]

== Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers ==

Austrian man is latest to be held responsible for traffic passing through Tor

An Austrian operator of Tor servers—that were used to anonymously route huge amounts of traffic over the Internet—has been charged with distributing child pornography. This comes after police detected illegal images traversing one of the nodes he maintains.

William Weber, a 20-year-old IT administrator in Graz, Austria, said nine officers searched his home on Wednesday after presenting him with a court order charging him with distribution and possible production of child pornography. The crimes carry penalties of as many as 10 years in prison. Police from the Styrian Landeskriminalamt, which has jurisdiction over the Austrian state of Styria, confiscated 20 computers as well as a game console, iPads, external hard drives, USB thumb drives, and other electronics. Evidence cited in the document showed that one of sevenTor Project exit nodes he operated transported illegal images.

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/

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He already has a lawyer and accepts donations for his legal expenses: http://raided4tor.cryto.net/donate/

PS: He ran ZhangPoland1, ZhangUkraine1, ZhangCzechRepublic1, ZhangAustria1, …

Robert