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==> Eike Kühl of Zeit Online reports: “Wer das Darknet ermöglicht, könnte bald Straftäter sein”. (Translation: “Whoever facilitates the Darknet could soon be considered a criminal”).
A link based on Google translate is going around the English-speaking internet, accompanied by speculation that Germany is trying to make Tor illegal or make it illegal to run exit nodes.
I thought I’d comment on that for the benefit of my English-speaking friends, having read the article in full in its German original.
The article details that the proposal is to make it a crime to run sites whose access is restricted by specific technical measures and whose purpose or activity is oriented towards aiding crime. The notion that it would become a crime to run a tor exit node is speculation on the part of the authors of this article.
But it is not apparent to me how that would follow from such a law: For example, since anyone can access Tor, and, by implication, any Tor exit node, access to a Tor exit node is not restricted in any way, so it would not seem to fall under this definition in my opinion.
As for running a Tor hidden service, this would seem to apply, but still: How do you draw the line between running a service where it just so happens that criminal business is conducted over that service versus running a service whose purpose or activity is actually directed towards aiding crime?
#politics #computers | Mar-15 2019
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