Tor man arrested

GERMAN COPPERS might need a lesson about how the interweb works after they arrested a bloke who had been running an anonymous server for placing a "bomb threat" on a police website.

Writing in his bog Alexander Janssen who ran a Tor server was having a night in and had a few drinks with an English guest when the coppers raided his house.

The coppers cuffed him and told him he was suspected of placing a bomb-threat at a German copper-forum called copzone.de - a forum he had never heard about.

The last address on the threatening email came from his Tor server and therefore this meant, you your average German copper, that Janssen had sent it.

The clever coppers searched his house and were very interested in his old chemistry books, the flak-vest he owned which he uses when he goes to strange countries and the fertiliser which used for growing his chilli-plants. They were convinced that Janssen's microcontroller-experiments looked like bomb making gear.

They locked off his office door, even though the Tor server was in a different city. The server was never shut down. Hours later, a red-faced person from the German equivalent of Homeland Security, the “Staatsschutz”, popped around to unlock the door and say that they sort of screwed up.

However Janssen said that he has shut down his Tor-server as he and his wife and were scared to death by the whole thing. µ