TOR.de shut down

Caught this on digg today: Reports abound of German authorities seizing TOR exit nodes, since they've been associated with child pornography.

This is unsurprising; while I'm all for Internet privacy, I find the TOR model pretty flawed, since it all depends on the exit nodes acting in a trustworthy way These flaws were discussed recently at AHA 0x0, where HD Moore described a system for de-anonymizing TOR.

In other words, TOR does, in fact, enable criminals to do bad things, but that's okay because it's quite feasable to trace individual TOR users at the exit point anyway.

Here's my cypherpunk tip: If you want to do Bad Things(tm) on the Internet, don't use your network to do it. Use the globally-accessable auto-anonymizing network at SSID:Linksys and a sub-500 dollar laptop which you will promptly throw in a dumpster after your Evil Deed(r).