Coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde at various locations in Germany
Mi 04 Juli 2018 by moritz, juris, qbiUpdate April 2019: We released an extensive set of files from the investigation in combination with a German talk covering the material. See German press coverage near the end of this page.
Update August 23rd: The court has confirmed that the searches and seizures were illegal. (Allegedly, no documents or equipment was analysed/evaluated and all copies were deleted.)
“Die angegriffenen Durchsuchungs- und Beschlagnahmebeschlüsse und Beschlagnahmebestätigungsbeschlüsse des Amtsgerichts München waren rechtswidrig. Soweit sie noch Bestand hatten, waren sie deshalb aufzuheben. Im Übrigen war ihre Rechtswidrigkeit festzustellen. Den Anträgen auf Herausgabe der beschlagnahmten Gegenstände war insoweit ebenfalls stattzugeben. Die Maßnahmen können nicht mehr als von der Strafprozessordnung gedeckt angesehen werden.
Zu Recht führen die Ermittlungsbehörden Verfahren gegen die Verantwortlichen der Aufrufe auf den zitierten Internetseiten. Die Annahme der Ermittlungsbehörden, dass sich bei der Durchsuchung bei den Betroffenen bzw. auf den beschlagnahmten Datenträgern Beweismittel für diese Verfahren finden lassen, ist aber bei den bekannten Umständen nicht gerechtfertigt. Es besteht keine ausreichende Wahrscheinlichkeit für das Auffinden relevanter Daten. Es gibt keine Anhaltspunkte, dass die Betroffenen, deren Verein Zwiebelfreunde e.V. oder die Gruppierung “Riseup Networks” auch nur zum Umfeld der unbekannten Täter gehören. Es ist zudem auch nicht unmittelbar ersichtlich, dass sich bei ihnen Informationen zum Täterumfeld oder zu den Tätern finden lassen. Einziger Verbindungspunkt ist der Umstand, dass die unbekannten Täter bei “Riseup Networks” ein E-Mail-Konto eingerichtet hatten. “Riseup Networks” bietet allerdings (bestimmungsgemäß) anonymisierte Internetdienste an. Die Einrichtung des Kontos kann (auf Empfehlung) anonym erfolgen. Der E-Mail-Verkehr über das eingerichtete Konto erfolgt verschlüsselt. Deswegen besteht nur eine sehr geringe Wahrscheinlichkeit, über “Riseup Networks” und dessen Datenbestand Informationen zu den Tätern und Taten zu erhalten. Ergänzend kommt hier noch hinzu, dass die Betroffenen mit ihrem Verein “Zwiebelfreunde e.V.” nach bisherigem Informationsstand nicht mit “Riseup Networks” gleichgesetzt werden können. Die Verbindung besteht, soweit bisher ersichtlich, nur in der Unterstützung des Netzwerks durch das Sammeln von Spenden.” (Landgericht München I)
Update August 13th: No update. The case is pending in court (at Landgericht München). Prosecution has confirmed that they have ‘sealed’ all items they took from us and that no further analysis will take place until after the court decision.
Update July 10th: Last week Monday, prosecution stated that they will keep our things for further analysis, even after explicitly confirming to journalists that they are aware that our only connection to Riseup is the collection of donations. This includes items belonging to our partners, and other third parties like companies we work for. That same Monday, after the AfD party convening, our lawyers filed for immediate sealing and suspension of analysis until a court decision. Everything else is pending on that, and for now it looks like there are no further legal steps we can take (yet). The two of us who have not been interviewed yet (because they were not present during the raids) have been asked to give further testimony, which they will do during this week, together with our lawyers. This is not over.
On June 20th, police raided five locations across Germany, nicely coordinated at 6:00 in the morning: The private homes of all three board members, Jens, Juris and Moritz, our registered headquarters in Dresden (a lawyer’s office), and the home of a previous board member.
Please check the bottom of this page for links to various press reports about these raids detailing what happened. We will update that section regularly.
The brief summary is that a German left-wing blog “Krawalltouristen” (ruckus tourists) called for protest actions around the right-wing AfD party convening in Augsburg, Germany. Law enforcement argues that this includes calls for violence.
The German police were interested in finding the authors of said blog, and deemed it appropriate to not ask for information or go after the email provider the blog happened to be using, riseup.net, but after the German entity Zwiebelfreunde.
Zwiebelfreunde has a partnership with Riseup Labs, a US non-profit, and manages donations via European wire transfers for the Riseup collective. We spend the money in collaboration with the collective on software development, travel reimbursements, and for Riseup’s Tor infrastructure.
We will update this post as the story evolves. For more details, please see publications by other media.
What data is affected, and how?
First of all, here’s a list of things we have strong reason to believe are not affected, and can still be considered safe:
- any Torservers related infrastructure: Tor relays, mail servers, web servers
- any of Riseup’s infrastructure (because we have nothing to do with that)
- cryptoparty.in or other cryptoparty related infrastructure
- PGP keys, SSH keys, OTR keys etc
They seized most of our electronical storage equipment (disks, laptops, PCs, GnuPG Smartcards/Yubikeys), but it is safe to assume that they will not be able to break the encryption (or the smartcards). They also took our mobile phones, but even if they were to break into them, no login data or anything else affecting our infrastructure or communications is stored on those phones.
We nevertheless revoked our shared contact PGP key, and will replace more and more keys and passphrases over time. Our new key is 0x74A312092938F2F0, signed by our previous key.
So, what is affected?
Apart from encrypted media, they had the legal right to seize documents related to our Riseup bank account starting from January 2018. They also went and got those from our bank, the GLS Gemeinschaftsbank. However, we have to keep records and receipts of all expenditures for tax reasons. These documents were “safely” kept in a secure fire-proof safe.
Despite our protests, they additionally seized all printed documents relating to our own and partner projects since the inception of the association in 2011.
This includes highly sensitive personal data of donors, identities of activists that received reimbursements or payments, and a list of our members.
If you have ever donated to Torservers, or Tails or Riseup via a European bank transaction, your data is very likely now in the hands of the German police. (IBAN account number, name of account holder, amount and date)
We did everything in our power to avoid a data breach like this, and are now doing everything we can to fight it:
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Our lawyers kindly asked for our equipment back. Most of the equipment does not belong to Zwiebelfreunde, and some of it is not even ours. They refused. We are now going to court over this.
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The warrant lists specific items. This was not respected.
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We argue that even the original warrants and seizures were clear overreach, and that this was used as an excuse to get access to member data and donor data. We have nothing to do with Riseup’s infrastructure. During the raids, the police forces clearly gave the impression that they knew we had nothing to do with either Riseup or the “ruckus tourist” blog. None of us had even heard of that blog before!
We are grateful for the quick and unbureaucratic financial support by Renewable Freedom Foundation, the logistical support of the Chaos Computer Club, and all the kind offers of help by various communities. Thank you!
If you’re not afraid to donate to accounts that are probably being monitored, you can still do so, at https://www.torservers.net/donate.html.
Press Coverage
English
- 4.7.2018 ZDnet: German police raid homes of Tor-linked group’s board members
- 4.7.2018 Riseup: Bavarian raids
- 4.7.2018 CCC: Police searches homes of „Zwiebelfreunde“ board members as well as „OpenLab“ in Augsburg
- 4.7.2018 BleepingComputer: German Police Accused of Carrying Out Some Pretty Stupid Raids
- 5.7.2018 Tails: Police raid at Zwiebelfreunde: Donor data compromised
- 5.7.2018 Naked Security : Tor-linked nonprofit raided by police
- 5.7.2018 All3DP: German Police Raid Augsburg Fablab, Confiscate 3D Printed “Atom Bomb”
- 9.11.2018 The Daily Swig: Questions behind unlawful raid on German privacy group remain unanswered
Dutch
- 4.7.2018 security.nl: Inval Duitse politie bij privacystichting raakt TorServers en Tails
- 4.7.2018 tweakers.net: CCC uit kritiek op optreden Duitse politie bij doorzoeking leden Tor-vereniging - IT Pro - Nieuws
French
- 5.7.2018 Le Monde: En Allemagne, série de perquisitions chez des défenseurs des libertés numériques
- 5.7.2018 La police allemande aurait abusé de son pouvoir lors de descentes contre les associations Zwiebefreunde et CCC
Portugese
- 4.7.2018 Ação policial coordenada contra a associação Zwiebelfreunde em várias localizações na Alemanha
Spanish
- 6.7.2018 La Marea: La policía alemana requisa datos sensibles de activistas del anonimato electrónico
- 7.7.2018 El Diario: La Policía alemana incauta datos de miles de activistas y mecenas europeos de la privacidad digital
Japanese
Luxembourgish
Danish
Greek
German
- 4.7.2018 Spiegel Online: Hausdurchsuchungen bei Netzaktivisten: Chaos Computer Club kritisiert Polizeivorgehen
- 4.7.2018 Augsburger Allgemeine: Als der Staatsschutz ins Augsburger “Open Lab” kam
- 4.7.2018 CCC: Hausdurchsuchungen bei Vereinsvorständen der „Zwiebelfreunde“ und im „OpenLab“ Augsburg
- 4.7.2018 Netzpolitik.org: „Zwiebelfreunde“-Durchsuchungen: Wenn Zeugen wie Straftäter behandelt werden
- 4.7.2018 heise: Massive CCC-Kritik an Polizei: Hausdurchsuchung bei Datenschutz-Aktivisten
- 4.7.2018 Golem: Zwiebelfreunde: Polizei durchsucht Räume von Tor-Aktivisten
- 4.7.2018 Fefe’s Blog: “ein vorsätzlicher Terroranschlag der deutschen Behörden gegen unbeteiligte Zivilisten”
- 4.7.2018 Thüringer Allgemeine: Polizeirazzia bei einem Jenaer „Zwiebelfreund“
- 4.7.2018 Sueddeutsche: Hausdurchsuchungen bei Netzaktivisten- Service-News
- 4.7.2018 12:06 Hitradio RTL Sachsen: Generalstaatsanwaltschaft München durchsucht Räume von Zwiebelfreunden Dresden
- 4.7.2018 12:40 finanzen.ch: Zwiebelfreunde: Polizei durchsucht Räume von Tor-Aktivisten
- 4.7.2018 13:57 der Standard: Chaos Computer Club übt scharfe Kritik an Hausdurchsuchungen bei Netzaktivisten
- 4.7.2018 15:20 Die Welt: Hausdurchsuchungen bei Netzaktivisten
- 4.7.2018 15:28 T-Online Digital: Netzaktivisten äußern Kritik an Polizei-Aktion
- 4.7.2018 BR Schwaben: Wegen Spendenaufrufs: Vor AfD-Parteitag: Augsburger Computer –Tüftler in Polizeigewahrsam
- 4.7.2018 16:46 Hannoversche Allgemeine: Zwiebelfreunde: Hausdurchsuchungen bei Netzaktivisten
- 4.7.2018 17:03 Münchner Merkur: Nach Aufruf zur Gewalt bei AfD-Parteitag: Hausdurchsuchung bei Netzaktivisten
- 4.7.2018 Piratenpartei Bayern: Schwere Grundrechtseingriffe bei Zeugen durch Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft sind nicht hinnehmbar
- 4.7.2018 Die Linke: König-Preuss kritisiert Razzien bei „Zwiebelfreunden“. Fraktion im Thüringer Landtag
- 5.7.2018 10:19 Augsburger Allgemeine: Kommentar Jan Kandzora: Staatsschutz durchsucht Augsburger “Open Lab”: Eine fragwürdige Aktion. “Das OpenLab sollte prüfen lassen, ob die Durchsuchung rechtmäßig war”
- 5.7.2018 11:12 VICE Motherboard: Polizisten gehen rabiat gegen Tor-Aktivisten vor, als sie chemische Formeln in seinem Büro entdecken
- 5.7.2018 Anke Domscheit-Berg: Schutz der Privatsphäre ist ein Grundrecht und kein Verbrechen
- 5.7.2018 Reporter ohne Grenzen: Solidarität mit Netzaktivisten der Zwiebelfreunde
- 5.7.2018 17:12 Thüringen24: Gefahr für AfD durch Fuck-Bomb? Razzia auch in Thüringen
- 5.7.2018 taz: Kommentar Razzien bei Netzaktivisten: Gezielte Einschüchterung
- 5.7.2018 netzpolitik.org: Reporter ohne Grenzen solidarisiert sich mit Zwiebelfreunden
- 12.7.2018 Piratenpartei Deutschland: Justizministerkonferenz soll Hausdurchsuchungen bei Netzaktivisten beraten
- 13.7.2018 VICE Motherboard: Polizei zwingt Netzaktivisten zur Öffnung ihres Safes und gelangt an geheime Spenderliste
- 18.7.2018 Durchsuchungen vor AfD-Parteitag: Computerclub in der Bredouille
- 26.7.2018 Telepolis: Polizei-Übergriffe nehmen zu, Opfer sind vor allem IT-Projekte
- 13.8.2018 Augsburger Allgemeine: “Open Lab” wehrt sich gegen Durchsuchung
- 24.8.2018 heise online: Zwiebelfreunde: Hausdurchsuchungen bei Datenschutz-Aktivisten rechtswidrig
- 24.8.2018 Augsburger Allgemeine: Gericht: Durchsuchung des Augsburger “Open Lab” war rechtswidrig
- 24.8.2018 netzpolitik.org: Gericht urteilt: Durchsuchung bei Zwiebelfreunden war rechtswidrig
- 24.8.2018 BR24: Beschlagnahmung bei Augsburger Computer-Verein rechtswidrig
Audio
- 4.7.2018 17:44 Radio Z: Bundesweite Hausdurchsuchungen wegen E-Mail-Adresse
- 5.7.2018 12:25 Radio Dreyeckland/Chaosradio Freiburg: Beschlagnahme bei Riseup, Tor und Tails Support Netzwerk und CCC nahen Openlab in Augsburg
- 6.7.2018 Logbuch Netzpolitik LNP260: Eine Hausdurchsuchung kommt selten allein
- 14.7.2018 c-radar Juli 2018: savetheinternet.info; Hausdurchsuchung bei Zwiebelfreunde, Polizeibesuch beim CTDO
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=================== Hart voor Internetvrijheid ======================
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
+----------+----------------+---------+-------------------+
| hviv104 | 454.23 Mbit/s | nl | 62.08 € |
| hviv1021 | 99.80 Mbit/s | md | 60.53 € |
| hviv1024 | 92.37 Mbit/s | md | 56.03 € |
| hviv1020 | 89.30 Mbit/s | md | 54.16 € |
| hviv1023 | 86.87 Mbit/s | md | 52.69 € |
| hviv1022 …Reimbursement Report 2014-08
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| aurora | 608.25 Mbit/s | ro | 344.42 € |
| destiny | 543.03 Mbit/s | lu | 249.87 € |
| orion | 488.95 Mbit/s | lu | 224.98 € |
| chulak | 260.64 Mbit/s | ro | 147.58 € |
| orilla | 114.23 Mbit/s | lu | 52.56 …Reimbursement Report 2014-07
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| DFRI0 | 331.85 Mbit/s | se | 150.77 € |
| DFRI2 | 282.60 Mbit/s | se | 128.40 € |
| DFRI3 | 119.31 Mbit/s | se | 54.21 € |
| DFRI1 | 73.05 Mbit/s | se | 33.19 € |
| DFRI4 | 4.41 Mbit/s | se | 2.00 € |
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Financial support: 368 …Reimbursement Report 2014-06
================================ Access ================================
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| AccessNow14 | 351.28 Mbit/s | ch | 163.61 € |
| AccessNow1 | 305.97 Mbit/s | ch | 142.50 € |
| AccessNow16 | 291.99 Mbit/s | ch | 135.99 € |
| AccessNow0 | 202.63 Mbit/s | ch | 94.37 € |
| AccessNow17 | 194.60 Mbit/s | ch | 90.64 € |
| AccessNow15 | 180.23 …Reimbursement Report 2014-05
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| DFRI2 | 410.22 Mbit/s | se | 338.65 € |
| DFRI0 | 329.74 Mbit/s | se | 272.21 € |
| DFRI3 | 60.53 Mbit/s | se | 49.97 € |
| DFRI1 | 49.80 Mbit/s | se | 41.11 € |
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Financial support: 500.00 €
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth …Reimbursement Report 2014-04
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| DFRI0 | 347.08 Mbit/s | se | 483.64 € |
| DFRI3 | 111.81 Mbit/s | se | 155.81 € |
| DFRI2 | 100.95 Mbit/s | se | 140.68 € |
| DFRI2 | 55.53 Mbit/s | se | 77.38 € |
| DFRI1 | 30.51 Mbit/s | se | 42.51 € |
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================================= DFRI =================================
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| DFRI0 | 264.01 Mbit/s | se | 268.74 € |
| DFRI2 | 234.64 Mbit/s | se | 238.85 € |
| DFRI3 | 88.67 Mbit/s | se | 90.26 € |
| DFRI1 | 28.56 Mbit/s | se | 29.07 € |
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Financial support: 500.00 €
======================= Swiss Privacy Foundation =======================
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country …Torcollect - A tool to collect statistics from servers that run Tor bridges
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============================= DFRI =================================
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
+-------+----------------+---------+-------------------+
| DFRI0 | 381.76 Mbit/s | se | 282.86 € |
| DFRI2 | 295.28 Mbit/s | se | 218.79 € |
| DFRI3 | 106.88 Mbit/s | se | 79.19 € |
| DFRI1 | 39.38 Mbit/s | se | 29.18 € |
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Financial support: 500.00 €
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth …Reimbursement Report 2014-01
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| DFRI2 | 508.18 Mbit/s | se | 277.75 € |
| DFRI0 | 471.35 Mbit/s | se | 257.62 € |
| DFRI3 | 163.89 Mbit/s | se | 89.57 € |
| DFRI1 | 54.07 Mbit/s | se | 29.55 € |
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Financial support: 500.00 €
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth …Reimbursement Report 2013-12
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| DFRI0 | 564.36 Mbit/s | se | 290.68 € |
| DFRI2 | 489.57 Mbit/s | se | 252.15 € |
| DFRI3 | 234.29 Mbit/s | se | 120.67 € |
| DFRI1 | 55.20 Mbit/s | se | 28.43 € |
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Financial support: 500.00 €
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth …Reimbursement Report 2013-11
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| Relay | Exit bandwidth | Country | Financial support |
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| DFRI0 | 334.97 Mbit/s | se | 539.92 € |
| DFRI2 | 91.89 Mbit/s | se | 148.12 € |
| DFRI3 | 57.75 Mbit/s | se | 93.08 € |
| DFRI1 | 30.88 Mbit/s | se | 49.78 € |
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Financial support: 500.00 €
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If you do wire transfers, this is our bank info:
Account holder: Zwiebelfreunde e.V. Name of bank: GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG IBAN: DE09430609671126825600 BIC: GENODEM1GLS (Kontonummer 1126825600, BLZ 43060967 …
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read moreProgress report Feb 1-5
Anyone interested in doing an English workshop on Internet censorship/online activism with me on ENA? http://www.ena2011.eu/
Feb 1st: - Flatters for torservers passed 1000! https://flattr.com/thing/5649/ - Flattr Revenue January: €128,57
Feb 2nd: - We have our own ARIN WHOIS entries now for zeller and …
read moreNew Tor relays online - zeller and raskin (thanks Mike from DefaultRoute!)
zeller.torservers.net and raskin.torservers.net just went live. These two relays are donations by the founder of defaultroute.net, Mike Sawicki, currently set at 20 Mbps each. He will SWIP the IP range, after that we will gradually open the exit policy.
Thank you Mike Sawicki - http://hax …
read moreUpdates
- www.codero.com donated a 100mbps Tor exit! The IP range should be SWIPed and RDNS set properly soon. We’re still testing the setup, so for now we’re only allowing port 443 to exit. http://torstatus.all.de/router_detail.php?FP=C67622A01D8D3B742A14506CD446342993C20FE3
It is named “wau”, after Wau …
read moreMerry Christmas / Traffic Stats December 2010 / 27c3
Merry christmas to you all :-) Let 2011 be a successful year in the never-ending fight for Human rights.
US Traffic for December: 92.7 TB in / 91.7 TB out Average 286.3 Mbps , Max 404.4 Mbps http://www.torservers.net/status/101224-sl.png
A special thanks to Richard …
read moreTorservers Update
It’s been very quiet on this list for a while now, and the website doesn’t show much progress either, so let me give you a “behind the scenes”.
- Abuse After convincing Softlayer to add a comment to our WHOIS range and limiting the ports, all complaints were directed …
All four nodes on top of all.de torstatus :-)
Datacenter stats: http://www.torservers.net/status/100624-sl.png
Tell your friends ;)
Haven’t heard back from neither BayTSP about my DMCA status, nor from Softlayer/100TB about SWIP. The 100TB admin told me he emailed their network engineers to check whether it is possible - although they told me about …
read moreAnother day, another dollar
We’re Top 1 and Top 2 now :-) http://www.torservers.net/torstatus18062010.png
“Average: 24 MB/s”
Please show this to your friends :-) We need more donations to make this work. Don’t let this be a fun experiment, let’s make it an institution.
read moreWe have a new server in Australia!
I’ve been contacted by networkpresence.com.au, a nice ISP in Australia. They have donated a small server for running another Tor exit node with 1MB/s of traffic.
Thanks!
read moreFirst nodes are online :-)
Thanks to YOU, the first nodes are online! As I’m still testing (never had the goal of pumping 39MB/s before), the configuration is provisional and I don’t want to announce them widely yet, but of course you should know about the progress.
anonymizer2.torservers.net (no web …
read moreYou can now Flattr torservers.net
Update: 32MB/s, new Torstatus screenshot
Tor Exit Node Sponsorship - looking for partners
At the moment, 25% of all traffic exits through Blutmagie (thanks Olaf!). I guess we all agree that this situation is far from optimal.
Judging from the number of requests in the last months where people were looking for friendly ISPs, help with setting up, running and managing Tor nodes …
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