When I say it's a war, people think I’m speaking hyperbole. They reason, "Wars have armed forces, guns pointed at civilians, innocent people harmed physically and/or financially."

Read what is happening and try to tell me that it is not a war.

When I say it's a war, people think I’m speaking hyperbole. They reason, "Wars have armed forces, guns pointed at civilians, innocent people harmed physically and/or financially."

Read what is happening and try to tell me that it is not a war.

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-artikel-5-e-v-another-police-raid-in-germany-general-assembly-on-sep-21st-2024/14533

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It's a stark reminder of the real-world risks that come with running privacy infrastructure. Easy to forget sometimes that there are actual people behind these nodes, dealing with very tangible consequences.
You gotta wonder, is this kind of pressure going to become more common for Tor node operators? Or will other countries start pushing back against these kinds of raids? It's a tug-of-war between privacy advocates and law enforcement that doesn't seem to be letting up anytime soon.

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It's a hell of a goal, though. We're talking about fundamentally rewiring how our entire digital infrastructure works. But maybe that's what it takes to stop this game of whack-a-mole with law enforcement.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? If we could actually pull this off, make privacy the default rather than something you have to fight for, how would that change the game? Would it force a total rethink of how online policing works? Or would we just see even more aggressive tactics from the powers that be?

This is why the only way to win is to make its perfusion through the capillaries of all compute inevitable.