Seth David Schoen schrieb:

NO DATA RETENTION FOR FREE-OF-CHARGE SERVICES

Original German text of this article "Keine Vorratsdatenspeicherung f|r unentgeltliche Dienste" is available at

http://www.daten-speicherung.de/index.php/keine-vorratsdatenspeicherung-fuer...

Copyright 2008 Patrick Breyer; licensed under Creative Commons BY-2.0 (Germany) license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/

Translation by Seth Schoen. This text version omits hyperlinks to the German text of laws, treaties, and court decisions which appear in-line in the original German version.

The article by Patrick Breyer and the translation by Seth Schoen gives the information about one main reason, why Tor nodes are not affected by the EU data retention an the German data retention law '113a TKG. Supported by qualified lawyers, we have identified one or two more points, why tor nodes has to be data retention free, but these points are technical and more difficult to communicate with the judiciary. So we ask the tor community, to keep tor non-commercial at all. If a commercial version of tor was online, it will be much more difficult in the next time, to fight against data retention in EU. Yes, it is possible, to make a data retention law for donated services in EU too. But this will takes time. We can use this time, to make tor more robust against this attack. We will keep the German tor admins and the board of torproject.org up-to-date about the lawyers expert opinion but with respect to the recommendation of the lawyers, we will not publish it at the moment. Regards Karsten N. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE