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+-   Researchers face jail risk for Tor snooping study -> on Thursday July 24 2008, @09:23AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 24 2008, @09:23AM
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An anonymous reader writes "A group of researchers from the University of Colorado and University of Washington could face both civil and criminal penalties for a research project (pdf) in which they snooped on users of the Tor anonymous proxy network. Should federal prosecutors take interest in the project, the researchers could also face up to 5 years in jail for violating the Wiretap Act.

The researchers neither sought legal review of the project or ran it past their Institutional Review Board. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has written a legal guide for Tor admins, strongly advises against any sort of network monitoring."
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