Thanks! On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Carolyn Anhalt <caro...@anhalt.org> wrote: > Today I fought with my lawyer for the acquittal of Tor:) Here is our press > release: > > Jena, 29.10.2009 > > Today, the Local Court of Jena, Hall 1, held a criminal trial against the > domain owner of wikileaks.de, Theodore Reppe. The criminal charges were > computer fraud - Reppe was accused of posting false information on the > Internet and thereby causing damages amounting to 38.55 euros. The only > evidence: An IP address that led to Reppe's customer data. After the opening > statement, defense attorney Norman Lenz read out comments and other > statements from Reppe that the court and prosecutor had to see that Reppe > was not the culprit. In fact, it turned out that the Tor server operated by > Reppe had been misused by someone else. > > The question ensued between the court and defense as to whether Reppe was > still guilty since he had allowed the transfer of the fraudulent data. The > court offered the popular conservative view that projects such as Tor are > more harmful than useful, stating claims such as, "There's nothing to fear > if you have nothing to hide!" and "This server could also allow anonymous > distribution of child pornography!" The defense countered: "These sorts of > statements could also justify the elimination of private mail and personal > correspondence." In the end, the presumption of innocence was upheld: > Reppe's Tor server only anonymizes and encrypts activity, it is not itself > the source of illegal activities, and thus the court had to acquit him. > > Please send questions to t...@morphium.info and they will be promptly > answered. > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Brian Mearns <bmea...@ieee.org> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek >> <juliusz.chroboc...@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote: >> >> And here is the german press release: >> >> >> >> http://klangbuero.net/2009/10/29/freispruch-fur-tor/ >> > >> > Please publish an English translation, so it gets Googlified. >> > >> > Juliusz >> > *********************************************************************** >> > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with >> > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ >> > >> >> Yes, I'd really like to see an English version if possible. >> >> Congratulations! >> -Brian >> >> >> -- >> Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: >> Key Id: 0x3AA70848 >> Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net >> *********************************************************************** >> To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with >> unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > >
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