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Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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You should become a tor exit node and look at the traffic. It will shock the fuck out of all your libertarian thinking.

I'm sure people do all kinds of things. My question is, do the people running exit nodes actually get in legal trouble for traffic that happens to transit their routers? It seems to be an accepted bit of folk wisdom that they do, but I cannot find many actual, documented cases where it has actually happened. This leaves me wondering whether the widely-assumed legal risk is real or just an urban legend.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/04/austrian_tor_exit_re...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-operators

Re: Hola VPN turns 10M users into exit nodes

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post #81

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