> Months later, the government arrested him. Their official reason? A minor, non-violent CFAA charge from an old workplace dispute that had nothing to do with Tor.
This is exactly the argument for privacy to people who say "I have nothing to hide". Authoritative governments will always find a reason to dig something up and the less privacy you have the easier it will be.
As a side note it sickening to see USA government doing this arrest straight out of gestapo/kgb playbook.
3 years of pretrial detention for anything less than blowing up a building should be enough to enrage anyone. Even then, the legal system would be a failure.
How is 3 years pretrial not blatantly unconstitutional and thrown out immediately?
Oh boy, wait until Palantir makes a unified database of everyone, they won't even need to have a previous offense, they can make one based on all the collected information or even based on your behaviors. Great times ahead!
Taking OP at her word, this is a horrific tale of extra-judicial abuse of an individual for refusing to cooperate with the DoJ on a matter of digital privacy. The OP wants story amplification, but to what end? The DoJ, controlled by Trump and Pam Bondi, probably think this person is getting away lightly with only a severe head wound and a comfy 3-year stay in county jail. A trial isn't necessary cops know who's bad, after all. There is already so much outrage directed at them about many other, larger scale issues, that they not only don't bend to but seem to actively feed off of it. I'm sorry to sound so hopeless, but no, there is no hope that someone elected specifically for his lack of empathy, lack of respect for rule-of-law and lack of self-restraint would ever be swayed by this story, no matter how much it is amplified. Your best bet is to fabricate a story that your husband is a fervent Trump supporter being unfairly targeted by rogue, Biden-loving elements of the FBI and an Obama appointed district judge.
We voted for this, the time to fix the problem was last November, and now we have to live with the results. It's also why I, and anyone else who values their freedom, their career, their family, needs to post such sentiment anonymously. It is NOT safe to criticize this administration.
Since when did private monitoring on private property become de facto right for government to surveil? That is like saying if you have a car or computer the govt has a right to use it when they want to.
The article provides a good foundation for opposing arguments.
Excerpting:
> The researchers wanted to find a way to do the seemingly impossible — to give the military the benefits of a global, high-speed communications network without exposing them to the vulnerabilities of the metadata that the network relied on to operate.
> ...
> There are other implications, as well. For a CIA agent to use Tor without suspicion in non-U.S. nations, for example, there would need to be plenty of citizens in these nations using Tor for everyday internet browsing. Similarly, if the only users in a particular country are whistleblowers, civil rights activists and protesters, the government may well simply arrest anyone connecting to your anonymity network. As a result, an onion routing system had to be open to as wide a range of users and maintainers as possible, so that the mere fact that someone was using the system wouldn’t reveal anything about their identity or their affiliations.
> ...
> Anonymity loves company — so Tor needed to be sold to the general public. That necessity led to an unlikely alliance between cypherpunks and the U.S. Navy.
> The NRL researchers behind Onion routing knew it wouldn’t work unless everyday people used it, so they reached out to the cypherpunks and invited them into conversations about design and strategy to reach the masses.
I can attest as a personal experience in the past that this kind of behavior is not uncommon with feds, and has happened even before the current administration. I've had a five years probation in the past for what the FBI argued that I "hacked" some company from changing the URL in specific ways, not to mention the "clear hacking tools" I had installed in my computer, e.g CCleaner. You know something is wrong when you literally have 98% chance of losing in court against the FBI. They are corrupt and incompetent.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 46.5 ms ] threadYou can catch one of these by logging into your moms netflix account.
This is exactly the argument for privacy to people who say "I have nothing to hide". Authoritative governments will always find a reason to dig something up and the less privacy you have the easier it will be.
As a side note it sickening to see USA government doing this arrest straight out of gestapo/kgb playbook.
How is 3 years pretrial not blatantly unconstitutional and thrown out immediately?
1. The fbi asks you to be an informant or "cooperate" with an investigation in some way.
2. If you refuse, they investigate you, and basically throw the book at you.
We voted for this, the time to fix the problem was last November, and now we have to live with the results. It's also why I, and anyone else who values their freedom, their career, their family, needs to post such sentiment anonymously. It is NOT safe to criticize this administration.
The article provides a good foundation for opposing arguments.
Excerpting:
> The researchers wanted to find a way to do the seemingly impossible — to give the military the benefits of a global, high-speed communications network without exposing them to the vulnerabilities of the metadata that the network relied on to operate.
> ...
> There are other implications, as well. For a CIA agent to use Tor without suspicion in non-U.S. nations, for example, there would need to be plenty of citizens in these nations using Tor for everyday internet browsing. Similarly, if the only users in a particular country are whistleblowers, civil rights activists and protesters, the government may well simply arrest anyone connecting to your anonymity network. As a result, an onion routing system had to be open to as wide a range of users and maintainers as possible, so that the mere fact that someone was using the system wouldn’t reveal anything about their identity or their affiliations.
> ...
> Anonymity loves company — so Tor needed to be sold to the general public. That necessity led to an unlikely alliance between cypherpunks and the U.S. Navy.
> The NRL researchers behind Onion routing knew it wouldn’t work unless everyday people used it, so they reached out to the cypherpunks and invited them into conversations about design and strategy to reach the masses.