Washington state’s U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan ruled in Tor-user Jay Michaud’s child pornography and government surveillance case that Michaud’s rights weren’t impinged. Michaud had “no reasonable expectation of privacy" regarding his IP address, and the information the FBI collected could have been gathered by “other lawful means,” Bryan said. Motherboard’s Joshua Kopstein said the ruling is a textbook example of the disconnect and misunderstanding between the legal system and the technological sector. “This makes no sense to anyone with a basic understanding of how Tor works,” Kopstein said. "Since Tor bounces data between random nodes located around the world, neither the ISP nor anyone intercepting traffic can correlate which IPs are accessing which sites.”
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