"Article 5 eV, a civil rights group helping to maintain the Tor network, has reported that German police raided the private address where the non-profit was registered.

The authorities came knocking at the Essen-based office on August 16th, 2024, the group said, with armed officers spending nearly two hours in the office. Article 5 eV facilitates Tor network by operating its exit nodes.

“There are obviously still people working in German law enforcement today, who think that harassing a node-operator NGO would somehow lead to the de-anonymization of individual Tor users. At least that is what they claim in the paperwork,” Gero Kühn, the leader of the group, said…"

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    2 months ago

    Interesting information, although I’m not the one best suited to process it, I would recommend you posting this to something like the skepticism Sunday threads on [email protected]. If it truly has been broken, they are managing to keep it very quiet. And if it has been broken, then there’s a good chance that the vast majority of encryption has also been broken, such as HTTPS.