Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node::undefined

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      AFAIK you should never run one on your personal IP

      Edit, wasn’t a personal IP. I mistook it when I read his apartment got raided. Advice still stands tho.

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        There will still be a trail. Even if you’re renting a server. Who’s CC is on file? Unless you want to waste your time buying prepaid visas. And even at that, they could track it to the retailer and find out which CC was used to order that. And even if you went in person, there’s likely video footage. Etc etc etc. It’s incredibly hard to remain hidden nowadays.

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    He was convicted (and given probation) for supporting the transfer for Child Porn, not for accessing it or creating it.

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    I read in one of VPS rental service Discord that someone rented a VPS to run tor exit node and HDDs of the server were confiscated without prior notice.

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    This is insane! It’s like prosecuting a postman for delivering child porn content to a customer.

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    Sorry I am not very techy, can someone eli5 what is an exit node? What is the point of running an exit node? Should the user have known his exit node (not sure if i am using the term right) could be used for cp?

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      One would not expect an exit node to be used for cp. A relay node would be more likely used for cp as one would expect the request to be internal to the tor network. A tor exit node is only used to access sites on the regular internet, not the “dark net”

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    I don’t care if he was guilty or if the government whatever, the post title makes me sick already.