On 11/30/2012 03:30 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote:
WAIT A SECOND HERE!?!?
I just read below that this guy runs a large ISP in Austria. I thought his Tor node was hosted with an external provider. If he runs the ISP, why would he not host his own server in house? I suppose there are reasons but I can't think of one, especially if you feel so strongly about this being your right.
He talks about moving it to another ISP in the article interviewing him. How about moving it to the large ISP you run?
If he runs a large ISP he must not be very good at it if he needs our donations to help him defend himself from a crime he has not been charged with yet. Most of the guys I know that run large ISPs have legal guys available to them. They could also come up with 10000EUR if necessary.
What is he going to do with this money if no charges are filed and they give his gear back? If he believes that he is innocent of any crime then he should be confident they won't find anything to charge him with, right?
If convicted i could face up to 6 years in jail, of course i do not want that and i also want to try to set a legal base for running Tor exit nodes in Austria or even the EU.
Six years in jail for what? They didn't arrest you yet. How do you know what the charges are? The cops must not be too worried about the Tor node if they did not seize it. They seem a lot more interested in his personal storage devices. He seems to have a lot of data at home, not illegal (possibly) but I am wondering what it all might be. The cops have a lot of looking around ahead of them. Seems awful worried for a guy who claims to be innocent. I am wondering why he seems so sure he will be charged that he is building a legal defense fund before being arrested.
Sadly we have nothing like the EFF here that could help me in this case by legal assistance, so i'm on my own and require a good lawyer. Thus i'm accepting donations for my legal expenses which i expect to be around 5000-10000 EUR. So you know how much it costs to defend a case with unknown charges and without knowing if you will be arrested yet?!?!?!
This whole thing sounds flakier with every new detail.
Steven Naslund
-----Original Message----- From: Eugen Leitl [mailto:eugen@leitl.org] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 1:25 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.
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From: Asad Haider <asad@asadhaider.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:37:24 +0000 To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can. Reply-To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org
William will be posting a statement soon which will explain everything that's happened and give a detailed account of events, along with evidence including pictures showing the aftermath of the raid in his apartment, as well as copies of the warrant and inventory of seized items.
He runs a large ISP in Austria and is a well respected member of the community, a lot of us have already sent in donations.
His blog is https://rdns.im/ and I'm guessing the statement will be posted on there, I'll send everyone a link once it's finished being written.
On 29 November 2012 19:22, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
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From: Emily Ozols <wingar@team-metro.net> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:14:08 +1100 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.
Hi,
I gotta ask and I'm sure someone would if I didn't, but how do we know this guy is legit? He's jumped up on a forum saying, "Hey, police raided me, help. gib mone plz" and failed to provide and reason as to how he's real and not just making it up.
Maybe if there's a way to know this guy is legit, I'll help out if possible, but until then I'm just going to watch others with caution and I suggest others do as well.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Chris <caldcv@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not William and a friend pasted a link on IRC to me. I'm going to send him a few bucks because I know how it feels to get blindsided by the police on one random day and your world is turned upside down. Source: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/6283/raided-for-running-a-tor-exi t-accepting-donations-for-legal-expenses From the URL:
Yes, it happened to me now as well - Yesterday i got raided for someone sharing child pornography over one of my Tor exits. I'm good so far, not in jail, but all my computers and hardware have been confiscated. (20 computers, 100TB+ storage, My Tablets/Consoles/Phones)
If convicted i could face up to 6 years in jail, of course i do not want that and i also want to try to set a legal base for running Tor exit nodes in Austria or even the EU.
Sadly we have nothing like the EFF here that could help me in this case by legal assistance, so i'm on my own and require a good lawyer. Thus i'm accepting donations for my legal expenses which i expect to be around 5000-10000 EUR.
If you can i would appreciate if you could donate a bit (every amount helps, even the smallest) either by PayPal (any currency is ok): https://paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2Q4LZ NBBD7EH4 Or by Bank Transfer (EUR only please):
Holder: William Weber Bank: EasyBank AG (Vienna, Austria) Account: 20011351213 Bank sort number: 14200 IBAN: AT031420020011351213 BIC: EASYATW1
I will try to pay them back when i'm out of this (or even before) but i can obviously not guarantee this, please keep this in mind. This money will only be used for legal expenses related to this case. If you have any questions or want to donate by another way (MoneyBookers, Webmoney, Bitcoin, Liberty Reserve, Neteller) feel free to send me a mail (william@william.si) or a PM, or contact me in LET IRC.
Thanks! William
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