Why all the hate for Germany specifically? Pretty much no gov out there likes TOR nodes. The fact that there are ton in Germany any seems like something that should be applauded
> That also does not take in account the planned German law that will allow authorities to redirect traffic to state-owned servers, to infect users with viruses/Trojans. This is especially a concern for third-world users of Tor who are going to mainly accessing non-HTTPS sites on a computer without the best security.
Did you read the article in its entirety?
> not too uncommon to get both a German guard and exit.
The solution here is more non-German nodes not to shit on the Germans that are already hosting lots.
Maybe there is a language barrier at play here but just seems bizarre how aggressively “the German” is being singled out:
>the German will give itself as many powers as it can to spy on its own citizens and those abroad.
If your security legislation is often declared partly illegal by the Verfassungsgericht (latest [1]), you leave the impression of reaching too far by default.
If your courts do not declare (too far reaching) laws illegal, you leave the impression to have been right in your demands.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/world/europe/germany-priv...
Here is a different way to think about it. You are a police officer and interrogate 100 honest people who never lie and 25 people confess their crimes and the rest are innocent. Then you interrogate 100 people who always lie (75 are innocent) and you can only prove 15 of them guilty. From the outside it looks like honest people have a higher chance to be criminals. Doing the right thing can destroy your reputation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
It could be argued that the United States does like TOR nodes ... it was originally a US Navy research and development project and, then, in later years the US state department specifically called out TOR as a useful tool (during the "Arab Spring" protests, IIRC.)
I see that even now, in 2020, the US State Department is a financial backer of TOR.[1]
If I were running TOR nodes in the United States (as I have in the past) I would rely on that current funding as a positive defense against any legal claims against me.
(I would also not do anything stupid like run TOR nodes from my home Internet)
The data are a bit richer and more granular than that, albeit imperfect. Take a look for yourself.