[tor-relays] NPR story: When A Dark Web Volunteer Gets Raided By The Police

[Greg]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:38 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472992023/when-a-dark-web-volunteer-gets-raided-by-the-police
>
> He/they gave passwords and let govt search (and perhaps even index,
> hash, and copy, knowingly or not [1]) his (possibly then unencrypted) data.
> As opposed to having it confiscated pending potentially 2^128 time.
> Where is the principled stand there? [2][4]
>
> [1] This happened while he was detained outside / away from
> control of his systems.
>
> [2] He "may now have to get rid of his computers because he
> can't be sure what the police did to them [3]". For which giving
> passwords had

> no purpose but to nullify a potentially good test
> case, ...

I'm curious- A good test case for what? Running an exit on an IP that
you also use for personal traffic?

> trample rights and replace "innocent till guilty" with "violated,
> chilled, innocent for now, while Cardinal Richelieu's database hums...
> ... If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest
> of men, whether or not I find something in them which will hang him,
> I will database them and own his soul forever."
>
> [3] Already did:
> https://twitter.com/SeattlePrivacy/status/716460499106340864
>
> [4] Due credit, thugs with guns at your door does tend to
> modify even the most well thought and prepared for principles.
>
> What doesn't kill you makes you stronger for next time.
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