-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Selke wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:14:34PM +0100, Olaf Selke wrote: >> >>> nothing will change for German tor operators due to this law. It defines >>> how to store and how to hand over stored data to the authorities. Data >>> not collected at all can't be stored, right?. But this law does not >>> enforce tor operators to collect any data. >> Oh, really? So ISPs, VoIP and mobile phone providers have nothing to fear, >> right? > > right!
Wrong. I read the law. My lawyers read the law. It doesnt say: Store the data you have. It says: Store these specific datasets, no matter if you have them or not. The comments in the "Regierungsentwurf" are very telling. So, I am sorry. Tor nodes will have to log. ISPs will have to log. Everyone doing public telco services will have to log. >> Wonder why they've been whining, then. I wonder why I went demonstrating >> for the first time in my life, in the freezing sleet, with a bad cold. > > they have to spend a lot of money for that kind of nonsense. That really > hurts. Do you expect companies do care for free speech or human rights? > They only care for profit. Actually, some companies do care for free speech and human rights. Mine does. Which is why it leaves Germany now for more free ground. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHNsVVOMmnRrmEoQkRArwTAJ4m4fUMjUlVmwGEwqmSq7OfmCZgbgCgkHbS hRLi0014ciIOj0ANOICKhno= =yuSe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----