{"id":3733,"date":"2009-10-29T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2009\/10\/29\/anonymisierungsdienste-sollen-verboten-werden"},"modified":"2009-10-29T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T12:51:41","slug":"anonymisierungsdienste-sollen-verboten-werden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2009\/10\/29\/anonymisierungsdienste-sollen-verboten-werden","title":{"rendered":"Anonymisierungsdienste sollen verboten werden"},"content":{"rendered":"

…in der Slowakei. Aber wenn unsere Internet-Ausdrucker<\/a> das jetzt lesen, wei\u00df ich schon, was dann kommt. Aus der Tor-Mailingliste<\/a>:<\/p>\n

„In September, the Slovak Ministry of Transport, Post and Telecommunication<\/a> prepared an amendment of the Electronic Communication Act. The Ministry of Internal Affairs integrated their suggestions, which include prohibition of anonymizing services.<\/p>\n

An anonymizer is defined there as „A service that restrains or makes impossible tracking of Internet users“, which is a very vague term. It’s not obvious, exactly what technologies (HTTP proxy, VPN, Tor, SSH tunnelling?) will be treated as „anonymizers“.<\/p>\n

Providing or even allowing such a service (within this could probably fall running a Tor relay) will be prosecuted. The fee can rise up to 33,000 Euros.<\/p>\n

The reason for this is (no surprise here), that anonymizers are mostly used for spreading child pornography, for extremists‘ communication and for financial frauds.<\/p>\n

If this amendment gets approved in this or similar form, it will pose a serious threat to Tor and online anonymity in general.<\/p>\n

I was unable to find any related text in english, so here is google translation of an article analyzing this amendment in slovak: translate.google.cz<\/a>.“<\/p>\n

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