[tor-talk] IP Cloaking and the CFAA [Was: Appearing American]

[Nathan Suchy]

If you would trace Tor Clients which if you stay safe and smart then you
can't. A lot of Tor Traffic may in fact be illegal but what good is that
information unless you have the magic power to trace Tor?
On Aug 23, 2013 4:11 PM, <andrew at torproject.is> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:46:51PM -0400, psema4 at gmail.com wrote 1.4K
> bytes in 0 lines about:
> : IP Cloaking Violates Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Judge Rules
> : <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/ip-cloaking-cfaa/>
> :
> : "A federal judge has ruled that circumventing an IP address blockade to
> : connect to a website is a breach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the
> : same law that was used to prosecute Aaron Swartzbefore he committed
> suicide
> : earlier this year."
>
> There's an "intent" behind doing it to circumvent a known block that
> the judge ruled illegal. See the EFF's write-up of the ruling,
>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/court-rules-accessing-public-website-isnt-crime-hiding-your-ip-address-could-be
> .
> The CFAA is a horrible law which needs to be rewritten or scrapped.
>
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