What will happen to Tor after the new German data retention law takes effect?

[Ringo Kamens]

If it's a 500,000 OR Jail time, then we could organize a defense fund
to pay for violations as an act of civil disobedience. I'm willing to
chip in $20 and I think that we could get lots of backing on that.
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 6/14/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:51:11AM -0500, Arrakis wrote:
>
> > Expect crickets. The fines will be 500,000 Euro + 2 years prison for
>
> For providers failing to comply, I would think. Not for small-time
> amateurs like us. But, I don't want to find this out the hard way,
> in person.
>
> > disobeying, I've heard. Pretty outrageous, considering Germany is such a
> > strong proponent for privacy.
>
> I would have to disagree. If you look at mere three months,
> there's some truly exquisite excrement to be found
>
>         http://postbiota.org/pipermail/heise/
> </kraut>
>
> We're certainly not in Kansas anymore, Toto.
>
> > XeroBank has a solution we are hoping we won't have to implement, but it
> > will allow Tor nodes to continue to operate in Germany.
>
> What do you want to do? (Offline, if you want to keep it off-record).
>