When we first hear about crackdowns such as this in Germany regarding a TOR server seizer, it tends to make people a little nervous. But when we look at the broader spectrum of why, in some more recent instances, we find that it’s not always an attack on privacy.

Sometimes it is merely an attempt to prevent problems such as the expansion of child pornography from becoming even worse.

So now we are are left a real problem: Do we leave the choice of privacy in the hands of people no different than ourselves? People who may or may not be inclined to make the same oversights and mistakes that you or I might make in their position?

Speaking for myself, I think it is important to maintain a certain level of security to prevent major problems such as child pornography from continuing to spread. But I would like to not have this battle take place in such a way that it totally disregards our individual right to privacy.

As things stand now, we are definitely teetering some. And unless we have some clearer guidelines, our privacy online may very well disappear altogether.