european data-retention - what does it mean to you, Mr. Operator?

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(links given by an austrian informant.)

All over europe people offering anonymity-services are forced to log within the next 13 month.

A german tor-operator now published in his blog under the title ""We are fucked individually!"" the commented, relevant parts of the laws as applicable to tor-operators.

On the german tor-talk mailing-list he gave the following numbers for estimated storage-space required for logging after doing real-world experimentation of that toppic.

Server Traffic: 2.000 KB/s average
logs for 1 week: 200 GByte
logs for 1 week after removing irrelevant content: 120 GByte
after compression and encryption: 20 GByte
sum for 26 weeks (6 month): 500 GByte average
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