He is also the maintainer of a web browser whose specification seems to be ‘to leave as little trace as possible in the event of a police raid’, which is pretty suspicious.
Your home can be raided for, say, running a Tor node, and you best believe they'll be looking for anything to charge you with because that's their job. I don't see anything wrong with this one.
Fun fact: having nmap installed on your computer is illegal in Germany.
Fun fact: having nmap installed on your computer is illegal in Germany.
That does not sound right and I am unable to find any source for that claim.
EDIT: Nmap might fall under § 202c STGB [1] and »verschaffen« (obtain) probably does not even require installing it, downloading it would probably be sufficient. But my non-lawyer interpretation would be that this only applies if you are doing it for the purpose of a crime as it starts with »Wer eine Straftat nach § 202a oder § 202b vorbereitet, indem er [...]« (Who prepares a criminal act according to § 202a or § 202b by [...]).
In my country "tools designed for hacking" (simplifying legalese a bit) are illegal, but I'm not aware of anyone who was sentenced purely because of this. I think it might've been an additional charge during trials of actual cybercriminals.
Indeed. If they raid your house for running a Tor exit node and find nmap installed, they'll add on a hacking tools charge to your running a drug marketplace charge and your money laundering charge, and in court, the hacking tools charge will actually stick because you actually did that.
Fun fact: I operated a TOR node for a while (not an exit node). It was in a datacenter and I mostly got yelled at because the IP was flagged as malicious outbound and the reputation of the IP range was degraded. I stopped the node but I still have the IP adress which is still inaccessible to most office workers years after ;-).
At no time did I think that I was risking jail time if my computer was seized. I'm lucky enough to live in a democratic country and I have a clean conscience.
There are two main types of people who are interested in TOR, the defence of privacy and the development of privacy protection software:
- Those who think about the situation of homosexuals and journalists in countries where they risk the death penalty or life imprisonment. Police state, government overreach, woman health, etc...
- Those who live in democratic countries but have a lot to hide.
Interesting, I thought that only exit nodes carry a reputation risk. I guess there must be some really zealous scrapers who ban middle nodes based on the public list.
Entry nodes also run a big reputational risk. A number of list providers filter them. Many organisations want to prevent their users from accessing TOR to bypass filtering or exfiltrate data.
All nodes are allowable entry nodes, although the standard client uses a guard selection algorithm that ensures the entry node will always be one with a good uptime record.
This is from his homepage. This dude is weird af. Certainly gives off some pedo incel vibes.
>Since I've been banned from Wikipedia, here are some non-sexual, completely legal PHOTOS OF NAKED CHILDREN, hosted by Wikipedia itself: 1, 2, 3, 4. Please stop being afraid of nudity.
and
>Pedophilia is a sexual orientation and is completely natural, it is not a disorder, it should be morally and legally accepted.
and
>Censorship is always wrong, possesion and sharing of any kind of information, including any type of pornography, has to be legal and moral.
and
>I am quite lonely, if you want to FUCK let me know please (but I've never done it yet).
Dude is the king of incels. What I see is a lot of "I'm lonely" on the page, but at the same time he lives out in the woods and has the kind of personality that made this page. Dude would probably benefit greatly from some dude taking him under his wing and getting him cleaned up inside and out, but that is a huge task for anybody to consider. This guy is really far gone at this point.
The reason he was banned from Wikipedia is noted as:
>Reason: WP:CHILDPROTECT: advocating defiance of "arbitrary law-imposed age limits" regarding sex & the legalization of child pornography at [https://web.archive.org/web/20230610082151/http://www.tastyf...] (page on a personal website that is linked openly on userpage.) History of on-wiki pedophile-coded conduct as well.
I have a theory that in cases like this the pedophilia is more of a symptom of his living conditions. If the guy got cleaned up, made some real life fiends, and even started actually dating it would fade into the background. I would never hire him as a babysitter or schoolteacher, but he could live a normal life if he took care of the loneliness issue.
I'm not so sure. This guy lives off welfare, rants about being a pedo online, and is a 34 yr old self-admitted virgin. I think he's too far gone and fucked in the head mentally to be "saved" or being able to be molded into a productive citizen in society.
> He extensively talks a ton about pedophilia. He for sure is a pedo.
I'm not sure why there is any doubt, "child nudity" is literally filed under "Some things I like" on his website. Not sure anyone needs any further evidence.
Fun fact: having nmap installed on your computer is illegal in Germany.