While German police have seized several Tor servers, Tor executive director Shava Nerad says that Tor itself is not under attack, that the police haven’t charged any Tor server operators and the organization expects the servers will be returned without incident.
We are simply part of a very wide net that they cast trying to track someone doing something illegal. It’s not much different from what would have happened if the police were investigating someone who had made obscene phone calls where the police would have seized the logs of the phone company.
The police won’t find any useful information in the servers, since none of the volunteer operators enable logging on the Tor servers, according to Nerad.
“In fact, that scenario of them checking for logs is worst case,” Nerad said. “Likely, they just seized every machine with an IP which had touched someone doing something nefarious. They probably have no
idea that these were even Tor servers.”
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