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

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988 points heavyset_go | 2 comments | 16 Sep 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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tptacek ◴[16 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45261951[source]▶
For whatever it's worth, the Reddit story here says that the federal courts used "fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again". Maybe! The other side of that story, via PACER, is a detailed parole violation warrant (you can hear the marshal refer to it in the video); the violations in that warrant:

1. Admitting to using cannabis during supervised release

2. Failing to make scheduled restitution payments and to cooperate with the financial investigation that sets restitution payment amounts.

3. Falling out of contact with his probation officer, who attempted home visits to find him.

4. Opening several new lines of credit.

5. Using an unauthorized iPhone (all his Internet devices apparently have keyloggers as a condition of his release).

These read like kind of standard parole terms? I don't know what the hell happened to get him into this situation in the first place, though.

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ranger_danger ◴[16 Sep 25 14:57 UTC] No.45263190[source]▶
It gets worse... both the wife and (either their husband or a previous partner) have their own threads on kiwi farms and are closely tied to both Encyclopedia Dramatica and Ethan Ralph. There's videos posted of them showing signs of severe mental illness.

https://0x0.st/KcyY.jpg

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1. trollbridge ◴[16 Sep 25 16:23 UTC] No.45264352[source]▶
People with severe mental illnesses still have Constitutional rights, including one not to get their head bashed in.

Running a Tor exit node is also not a crime, and he ran it long before there was any conviction. And asking to decrypt incoming traffic (from other nodes) is really sus; it has nothing at all do with the accused’s parole or alleged crimes.

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2. ranger_danger ◴[16 Sep 25 16:37 UTC] No.45264559[source]▶
> People with severe mental illnesses still have Constitutional rights, including one not to get their head bashed in.

Yes, I wasn't trying to imply that. But according to court records he got hurt because he was being combative during the execution of an arrest warrant.

> Running a Tor exit node is also not a crime

Probably correct, and the original headline seemed to try to imply that it was in fact what they got in trouble for (it has since been changed), but there's way more to this story than OP lets on... by a mile.