"Article 5 eV, a civil rights group helping to maintain the Tor network, has reported that German police raided the private address where the non-profit was registered.

The authorities came knocking at the Essen-based office on August 16th, 2024, the group said, with armed officers spending nearly two hours in the office. Article 5 eV facilitates Tor network by operating its exit nodes.

“There are obviously still people working in German law enforcement today, who think that harassing a node-operator NGO would somehow lead to the de-anonymization of individual Tor users. At least that is what they claim in the paperwork,” Gero Kühn, the leader of the group, said…"

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    5 days ago

    Get a distinct line in a dedicated room.

    That way when they confiscate all the equipment, it will only be the equipment used on that Tor network.

    This is the official advise from the Tor project, by the way

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      Silly question but how would they know that that it the Tor equipment? Wouldn’t the just come and take it all?