Tor Exit Nodes Mapped and Located

Post by tzury » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 5:22 AM UTC

jcr wrote: post #24

EwanG wrote: post #11

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Government contractor. Feel free to guess what they're being paid to do...

Casting doubts and aspersions when you don't know anything and haven't bothered to read up on what they do is extremely unfair. They do some very impressive cryptographic deduplication. Essentially it's a method to deduplicate already encrypted data reliably. If you don't realize how amazingly cool that is, you need to do some reading. It's a really tough problem, and it solves a major pain point for anyone with larg…

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Post by malandrew » Fri, Mar 01, 2013, 6:43 AM UTC

conformal wrote: post #41

Wilya wrote: post #6

Any background on who "Conformal Systems" are and why they would operate exit nodes ? I'm not really familiar with who they are and what they do, but they seem to be the only one in the top-25 that isn't either a hosting company or a residential ISP. (apart from Formless Networking, but that one is a bit more well known) Not that it's not nice of them, but it seems a bit out of place.

we have more bandwidth than we use and we donate this bandwidth to the tor project. we are fans of the tor project and care about protecting personal privacy and individual expression. we have 3 nodes running up to 4 processes on each node. each node is capable of pushing out up to ~600 Mbps with 4 processes on it. the nodes run bitrig, a fork of openbsd that several of our developers hack on. EDIT: i just read the l…