| What are you talking about? The OP wrote a crawler and used it to crawl Tor. Depending on where they live, accessing the content might be illegal, and storing some of the content in your computer might be illegal as well. Law enforcement might be monitoring some domains, or have set up some honeypots that the OP might crawl automatically. You don't want to end up in court having to argue about why your computed accessed some child pornography and downloaded it, and trying to explain to a jury that you did not did those things, but that the crawler that you programmed to do those things did. Sure, nobody might end up raiding the OPs home, and even if they do, the OP might be able to successfully survive a jury. But just having to go through that might suck. If the OP only wrote the software and never used it, then they are fine. But from the article, they did use it, so who knows where the crawler landed. Chances are nowhere good. |