Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Seattle Privacy
Activists Wasn’t Told They Operate Tor Network
Ansel Herz writes:
One week after Seattle police searched
the home of two well-known privacy activists for child porn and found nothing, critics are questioning why the
department failed to include a key piece of information in its application for
a warrant—the fact that the activists operated a Tor node out of their
apartment, in order to help internet users all over the world surf the web
anonymously.
“You knew about the Tor node,”
said Eric Rachner,
a cybersecurity counsultant and co-founder of Seattle’s Center for Open
Policing, addressing the police department on Twitter, “but didn’t mention it
in warrant application. Y’all pulled
a fast one on the judge… you knew the uploader could have been literally anyone
in the world.”
[…]In the aftermath of the
search, the question was whether Seattle police had done their technical due
diligence: Did they recognize that Bultmann and David were operating a Tor
node? If so, did they realize that a tip
about child porn coming from that IP address, absent any other evidence, likely
meant someone else in another part of the world had uploaded the material and
it had been randomly routed through their node?
Read more on The Stranger.
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Will insurance companies offer discounts for wearing these like the
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emergency ward following a seizure. After looking at the data collected by his
Fitbit Charge HR, the doctors decided to reset his heart rate with an
electrical cardioversion. It’s the first
time in history that a fitness tracker was used in this way.
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