any moment now ...

[John Case]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, J.A. Terranson wrote:

>> I am curious as to how Tor operators will be viewed in all of this ... as ISPs
>> or as material accomplices ?
>
> Likely as a co-conspirator.  This way, grand juries (who have zero clue to
> start with, and even less after the dog and pony show by the prosecutor)
> its easier to get warrants to go fishing on any domestic Tor participant.
> Thousands of potential "terrorists" for the price of a single subpoena :-(


Running a Tor node that is easily traceable back to your own real world 
identity is, I think, very foolish.

Unfortunately, the Tor mailing list is full of people running them from 
their residential Internet connection or their college dorm room.