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From the 'Double-edged Sword of Security and Privacy Dept.'

Slashdot: Servers participating in the TOR anonymizing network have been seized by public prosecutors during a child porn crackdown in Germany.

TOR: This is not a "crackdown on Tor", as has been widely reported. This seems to be part of a wide sweep on computers associated by IP address with a large child porn bust. There does not seem to be any specific targeting of Tor — Tor is used by journalists, human rights activists, dissident bloggers, and a vast array of blameless users.

Tags: tor, anonymous, anonymizing, germany, privacy, security