Anonymous proxy server admin arrested.

[Cadavre777]

This article is a bit old, but I thought it's still an interesting read.

http://www.cnet.com/surveillance-state/8301-13739_1-9779225-46.html

The police were investigating a bomb threat posted to an online forum for German police officers. The police traced one of the objectionable posts on the forum to the IP address for Janssen's server. Up until his arrest, Alex Janssen's Tor server carried more than 40GB of random strangers' Internet traffic each day.

Showing up at his house at midnight on a Sunday night, police cuffed and arrested him in front of his wife and seized his equipment. In a display of both bitter irony and incompetence, the police did not take or shutdown the Tor server responsible for the traffic they were interested in, which was located in a different city, more than 500km away.

I can only imagine what kind of nightmare it would be trying to explain to local authorities if a similar incident happened here.

 

[meGaMan]

Yes. i've been looking into this. what you would do it make yourself one or the Tor nodes(or relays). and as the encrypted data make be sent to another node, the chances are that you may be the "exit node" wheres the data will be unencrypted and if you have a packet sniffer in place sniffing for say certain words, you might get lucky. Very scary what Tor promises for this to happen.

Chrz

 

[ld13]

Yes. i've been looking into this...the chances are that you may be the "exit node" wheres the data will be unencrypted and if you have a packet sniffer in place sniffing for say certain words, you might get lucky. Very scary what Tor promises for this to happen.
Chrz

/me ninjas meGaMan
/me greets the ninja'ed meGaMan
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So you have been looking into this? Clearly not hard enough. You can set that your node will not be a "Exit Node" in the settings. LOL and Good luck with that sniffing though!

 

[PeterCH]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer

Sounds a bit like the old anon.penet remailer.