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Raided for running a Tor exit - Accepting donations for legal expenses
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Interview with William released here: http://raided4tor.cryto.net/ (in English, Dutch, and German)
Too bad Falco died
Alles klar herr Komissar...
Fuck, William, what do you need those firearms for???
Hey @William there is your in. Get in touch with your boy mr moneybags KimDotCom. He can probably help you with a lawyer.
Meh, PayPal account limited due to fund limit - Need to call PayPal tommorow to remove this ASAP.
@William
Those bitches... :L
Saw that coming, they have a habit of freezing up accounts that suddenly started taking donations. Just don't mention Bitcoins to them...
TV interviews? Wow, issue must really be BIG where you're from. Well anyways, that will help inform everyone about the problem, and rally more support for your cause.
Looking ahead, you can probably get book deals, a tv-slot or even a movie or two "Tor, hammer of the Gods". (Lol, just lightening up the situation a little bit.)
@Amitz William is channeling his inner American through those firearms. Absolutely nothing wrong with them as long as they are legal. Hopefully they don't go after him over the Marijuana possession, 10 grams is nothing.
I'm sure he means web interviews like blogs and skype chats etc.
@kalam wrong person you ment @Amitz
@24khost Wops, my bad.
Just noticed this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-charged-for-child-porn-transmitted-over-his-servers/
I wasn't aware an LET thread was a "blog post".
@kbeezie their blog post word links to http://raided4tor.cryto.net/
And their words " he wrote in a blog post seeking donations."
links to this thread. 3rd from the last paragraph.
Though in regards to the before/after picture... I'm surprised they didn't take the laptop.
@kbeezie - They did, he bought a new one using some emergency funds he had stashed in a safety deposit box.
Ahh that explains that. Was thinking if they took a cable box they probably took every conceivable storage medium.
gl, don't wish this on anyone, but you -were- running an exit node
Hope you can find a way out of this. My prayers with you @William
Why would a normal guy have a safe deposit box with an emergency phone and enough cash to buy a new MacBook? Not attempting to hate or anything, i'm just curious
@birdie25
I don't think it's like that.
http://raided4tor.cryto.net/
100TB in storage, large amounts of legal weaponry, large amounts of electronics, and drugs... You must have been earning quite a respectable amount of money from edis. It's too bad that you probably won't see any of it again for months.
Thank you for doing an interview, it was interesting to see how they conducted their raid.
I am too. It sounds, erm, a little paranoid.
Well probably doing more than just running exit nodes since you don't actually have to store the stuff that goes thru them. Maybe a few torrent seeders too?
Don't you have any emergency funds stashed? I know, I do. #Mattress-stuffing
Yeah, the only two uses I can think of for 100TB at home is torrents or backups (and while it's quite certainly possible, I don't think he'd be backing up VPS nodes to his home).
@William: Do you know what will happen to you now, if your hardware/guns will be returned, and if you will or will not be charged with anything in relation to the child pornography part of this?
Why is it odd to have a little something set aside for a rainy day? today it rained, and he is damn glad he did plan a little ahead. I don't see paranoid at all, I see he was short sighted to stash so little.
Well, he did have a lot of weapons, you need a bit of paranoia to run and use Tor, unfortunately, this seems to be one of the cases the paranoia helped.
One day not only paranoics and ppl in iran, china, emirates etc will need tor on a daily basis, at the rate the surveillance goes, everyone will be monitored soon enough, and if you have no issue taking the NSA to bed for some threesome at least, no problem for you, but those ppl are not many.
I mean, I personally if I were forseeing some kind of problems on the horizon such as this, not sure I'd blow the entire emergency funding on a macbook... maybe some kind of a cheap chromebook or something until I learned more about my fate. (though having an emergency phone inside of a safe deposit box already seems a lil odd, if I read that correctly). :P It's almost like what you have set aside if you think you might piss off the wrong criminal spammer/scammer that you were hosting or something like that and needed to disappear.
Well, it is good that AUT laws protect the deposit boxes and teh random criminals willhardly be able to enter the bank, not to mention looking inside those boxes, so it seems a good idea to me.