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OhEsEcks said:
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Had a browse through it last night mate. Just wondering actually, say I go for a wander using Tor and end up in a red room. Now,this is all hyperthetical as I have zero intentions of doing this but I am interested in this related topic...would I get into trouble for this?

Again please let me stress I have no desire to do this just thinking out loud really
 
oldestgregg said:
Had a browse through it last night mate. Just wondering actually, say I go for a wander using Tor and end up in a red room. Now,this is all hyperthetical as I have zero intentions of doing this but I am interested in this related topic...would I get into trouble for this?

Again please let me stress I have no desire to do this just thinking out loud really
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You'd probably need a damn good excuse as to why you were using Tor in the first place and how you managed to click through so much of it you ended up on a child porn site. Using it as a tool to get around IP bans, or keep traffic hidden to circumvent government monitoring tools will never, in a million years, require you to use it in a manner that you'd end up browsing child porn. Or any other vile stuff. You have to go looking for that.

More trouble comes your way though, if you host a relay or exit node and undesirable traffic passes through it.
 
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OhEsEcks said:
You'd probably need a damn good excuse as to why you were using Tor in the first place and how you managed to click through so much of it you ended up on a child porn site. Using it as a tool to get around IP bans, or keep traffic hidden to circumvent government monitoring tools will never, in a million years, require you to use it in a manner that you'd end up browsing child porn.

More trouble comes your way though, if you host a relay or exit node and undesirable traffic passes through it.
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From what I understand its not child porn however,that is irrelevant as it was a just example I used. What I meant was its a snuff site (I think) so is the act of watching one on their site illegal considering the content and the fact they are breaking the law to make it?

So is the use of the tor browser itself frowned upon? Thanks for the answers by the way :)
 
oldestgregg said:
From what I understand its not child porn however,that is irrelevant as it was a just example I used. What I meant was its a snuff site (I think) so is the act of watching one on their site illegal considering the content and the fact they are breaking the law to make it?

So is the use of the tor browser itself frowned upon? Thanks for the answers by the way :)
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I added "vile stuff" to include snuff and whatever else.

The US government developed TOR at the Naval Research Labs and they opened sourced it. It's their creation. The only thing illegal about using it is using it for illegal purposes. Now, when Western governments start making TOR illegal to get around filters and bans they've put in place to criticise them and their policies, we'll have problems.
 
OhEsEcks said:
I added "vile stuff" to include snuff and whatever else.

The US government developed TOR at the Naval Research Labs and they opened sourced it. It's their creation. The only thing illegal about using it is using it for illegal purposes. Now, when Western governments start making TOR illegal to get around filters and bans they've put in place to criticise them and their policies, we'll have problems.
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Understood and cheers. Feel like Ive learnt loads over the last day or so about something I will now never use :D
 
Millions of people use the tor browser worldwide your not going to get in trouble for that and I'm sure after all the edgy videos on YouTube showing how to use Tor making the hidden wiki etc look cool that millions have been all over it just having a nose around.
As others say it's the relays etc and other traffic that can cause problems your not doing anything wrong having a snoop around
 
OhEsEcks said:
Now, when Western governments start making TOR illegal to get around filters and bans they've put in place to criticise them and their policies, we'll have problems.
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If/when a program needs to be "certified" before it can send data over the internet with hardware DRM to enforce that, that is when we will have problems :S
 
OhEsEcks said:
Now, when Western governments start making TOR illegal to get around filters and bans they've put in place to criticise them and their policies, we'll have problems.
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The UK are frontrunners in the western world on this. Already that ambiguous copying law, proposals to ban encryption itself, etc.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Well I haven't seen a single post explaining how to preserve privacy or are you just too lazy to explain it to those here who don't know the facts.
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Maybe you should get off your high horse and deal with the fact you ended up bitching out a guy who was spouting a meme?

And yes, I am too lazy. Because when these threads turn up, and I've posted in them previously, the majority of user discourse boils down to "nothing to hide nothing to fear". And I'm tired of arguing against that. If that's the way they see it, **** em, and let them deal with it.
 
Rroff said:
If/when a program needs to be "certified" before it can send data over the internet with hardware DRM to enforce that, that is when we will have problems :S
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Which is something they're already working on for digital content providers.

Dj_Jestar said:
The UK are frontrunners in the western world on this. Already that ambiguous copying law, proposals to ban encryption itself, etc.
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Exactly. But, nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Right?
 
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