I'm assuming that means the police are running their own nodes and logging any traffic to go through them, but that's pure guesswork.Īlso guesswork, but I think the source was probably the one Windows box in the house which I've run Tor on in the past to get round UK ISPs blocking torrent sites. The wording on the warrant they had for my arrest was that they'd traced an attempt to access child porn using Tor 'through undisclosed means'. I've got very little information on precisely what happened. To come vaguely back on topic, find a better way to get at TV you want to watch, because no amount of Game of Thrones is worth months of worrying whether the next knock at the door is going to be the police come to take you off to jail. I've spent the last few months worrying that maybe one of our computers has also been used as a server. Thankfully the investigation is coming to an end now (in fact I got a call this morning to say the remaining two computers are going to be returned tomorrow), and it looks like everything is going to be ok. It also cost us hundreds of pounds in buying new laptops to use for work while we wait for our existing ones to be returned.

Since then I've been on bail with the condition that I'm not allowed to be unsupervised with anyone under the age of sixteen, which when you have a one year old son is inconvenient to say the least - there was a short time when it seemed a real possibility that he may be taken into care because social services didn't like that my wife believes I'm innocent. Anything in my house which could be used for digital storage was seized, and I spent 9 hours in a police station, variously being interviewed, and sitting in a cell with plenty of time to think about how horribly wrong it could all go. While the police have been incredibly professional about this, its been a truly horrible process. My current theory is that something got added to a botnet and used as a proxy, but I'm not eager to leave things running to find out. This is a far more real risk than you might think, I'm currently on the tail end of a police investigation triggered by a device on my home network accessing child porn via Tor.

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