So there was yet another fishing expedition to stifle free speech and a judge just used technological incompetence as a defense.
>>70858595
>Judge William Downing, who spoke about some of the underlying issues. "When we get into things like this," he said, "anonymizing stuff, that’s well over my head technologically, then it becomes very murky and hazy."
It's a series of tubes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOoQFa5ug8
Partial blame lies with the cops for pursuing the warrant, too.
>As was the case with the Stingrays," he said, "law enforcement didn’t adequately describe the nature of the search in the request
>ACLU of Washington Legislative Director Shankar Narayan said there should be a high bar for suspicion in cases like this one. SPD should have included relevant information about the Tor node in its warrant request for the judge, he said, and sending in six officers to run forensics on the computers was excessive.
>Robinson questions whether police deliberately delayed checking the IP address against the public list of Tor nodes in order to avoid sharing exculpatory information with the judge. He believes a sound investigation would have checked the IP address as soon as the tip came in. "Why spoil a perfectly good warrant with facts?" he asked.
>The warrant says the porn was uploaded to an encrypted web address on 4chan—the destination for the material after it passed through a Tor exit relay.
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/04/08/23914735/judge-who-authorized-police-search-of-seattle-privacy-activists-wasnt-told-they-operate-tor-network
>"They wasted their time, they frightened us, they cost us money, and they violated our constitutional rights," said Robinson. "And it was all needless... This kind of pointless intimidation of Tor operators just hurts the Tor network."
>>70858731
It unironically is a series of tubes all connected to our toilets and places like google store our shit to parse and sell the nuggets to advertisers.
>>70858882
The entire thing is full of lies. Judges know better than to be rubber stamps but they do it anyway because that's what the system encourages.
Claiming incompetence is easy but I don't buy it. Anyone who can get a decent LSAT logic games score can manage to comprehend TOR basics.
>>70858941
>This kind of pointless intimidation of Tor operators just hurts the Tor network.
That's the point. That's why they do it.
>>70859088
>That's the point. That's why they do it.
Exactly. And that's why judges hide behind lies like "I'm technologically incompetent".
If that is true it's by design. Any judge who would actually care about the law would do due diligence. It takes less than thirty minutes for even a novice to learn the basics.
>>70859282
Can anything be done about it?
>>70859609
Just as soon as law stops being a fancy name for protection of elite privilege.
(what it has always been and always will be)
>>70859057
>It unironically is a series of tubes all connected to our toilets
I thought that's politicians.
>>70858731
coaxial cables work kinda like tubes....
>>70861206
It's not a big truck.
