←back to thread

Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node

(reddit.com)
989 points heavyset_go | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source
Show context
mrtksn ◴[16 Sep 25 13:17 UTC] No.45261844[source]▶
Interesting, Trump administration pardoned Ross William Ulbricht who run drug dealing business specifically because it was done behind Tor using cryptocurrency. So this was a one off?

This sounds awful lot like Middle Eastern mafia stuff, where it's technically illegal to do some things but you can do a lot of things if you are aligned with the people in power.

I have no idea what this person was up to but this selective treatment(if true) smells very bad. IIRC behind the release of Ross there was some libertarian NGO or something, maybe contact them?

replies(4): >>45261907 #>>45262228 #>>45262420 #>>45262965 #
1. arevno ◴[16 Sep 25 14:43 UTC] No.45262965[source]▶
The pardon was specifically a campaign promise to libertarians, and likely little more than that.

Even if this Administration is friendly to Tor (which I doubt), the FBI is a very large organization and installing a new head doesn't magically make current caseload at the agent level go away. There are still Biden-era and even Trump v1 era investigations likely still open and active there.