Tor exit node operator gets raided by police
&gt; Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the department understands how Tor relays work, and they knew Robinson was a Tor host.<p>&gt; &quot;Knowing that, moving in, it doesn&#x27;t automatically preclude the idea that the people running Tor are not also involved in child porn,&quot; Whitcomb says. &quot;It does offer a plausible alibi, but it&#x27;s still something that we need to check out.&quot;<p>&gt; Whitcomb also says Seattle police were &quot;artful&quot; in the way they did the search. Instead of impounding all of Robinson&#x27;s computers, which the warrant would have allowed, they offered to search them on the premises as long as he consented to turning over his passwords. He did, and they let him keep his machines after they scanned them.<p>This is the important part. They didn&#x27;t shut down the exit node. They didn&#x27;t even take away the computer. This sounds bad, but in all honesty, it could have gone at lot worse.