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Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by Diederich »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #2

Tor is a project I want to like and support, but can’t. I feel (and I have no evidence) that for every 1 person using it to protect their privacy, 20 are using it for despicable purposes. I would love to be proved wrong on this. I don’t want to shut it down, but at the same time I don’t feel I can personally or technically support it.

I run most of my in-home apps as Tor hidden services, simply because it's a very easy way to get traffic in past multiple layers of NATs and firewalls, given that I always have a Tor enabled browser available on my remote phones and other devices.

Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by maltalex »

pamperson wrote: post #89
maltalex wrote: post #18

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Yes, many places have a serious need for Tor. But the bridge stats are misleading because bridges are exclusivity for circumventing censorship. The stats for tor relays [0] are different: United States 418568 (20.37 %) Russia 335382 (16.32 %) Germany 172251 (8.38 %) France 92643 (4.51 %) Netherlands 76496 (3.72 %) United Kingdom 68674 (3.34 %) Indonesia 61917 (3.01 %) Ukraine 50331 (2.45 %) Canada 48246 (2.35 %) Indi…

loads of pedos and criminals love hiding via that network, and those who run it likely know it, but they defend it as “privacy” and “freedom” yet this stat shows its being used in somewhat free countries.

While I'm sure you're right about some of Tor's users, there are plenty of perfectly valid (and legal) reasons for using tor in free countries too.

Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by Ancalagon »

snazz wrote: post #75
walrus01 wrote: post #54

Why you need balls of steel to operate a tor exit node: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2009-Septemb... Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node By calumog I became interested in Tor in the spring of 2007 after reading about the situation in Burma and felt that I would like to do something, anything, to help. As a geek and lover of the internet it seemed the best thing I could do was to…

I would have to assume that plenty of home computers, routers, and Android devices are involved in botnets as well. Do unsuspecting people with malware on their device get visited by the police if criminals are using their computer as a relay?

Actually, yes. I don't have the source on me right now (so you can take what I say with a grain of salt), but I recall a story of someone whose router had been caught in a botnet. This person was visited by the police in much the same way, with their router being confiscated and eventually returned to them.

Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by blackboxlogic »

dependenttypes wrote: post #95
blackboxlogic wrote: post #56

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Sometimes there are victims. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/12/facebook-paid-fo...

I really can't consider that man a victim.

Maybe I want clear, if maybe you're joking. I was thinking of his victims.

Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by dependenttypes »

blackboxlogic wrote: post #96
dependenttypes wrote: post #95

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I really can't consider that man a victim.

Maybe I want clear, if maybe you're joking. I was thinking of his victims.

Ah fair enough then. Yes, I had not considered this case of blackmailing.

Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by vocatus_gate »

seven4 wrote: post #3

I often wonder what incentives drive people to run TOR exit nodes; the risk even if remote of getting raided is enough to stop most I'd imagine. Got me thinking on the legal implications and interestingly TOR doesn't recommend running an exit node at home - Found this FAQ quite interesting https://2019.www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en Particularly ~ Has anyone ever been sued or prosecuted for running Tor?…

I ran a Tor exit relay from home for a few years, eventually had to stop because I kept getting blocked from sites due to having my IP address listed on the Tor exit node list.

Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by loa_in_ »

pamperson wrote: post #88
minimalist wrote: post #9

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FWIW, I have been doing all of my non-multimedia browsing over Tor for about a decade now. It provides cover traffic for people who actually need the anonymity and I feel like it is a step in the right direction to frustrate state and corporate surveillance. Some sites break, but I have observed less and less sites breaking compared to a few years ago. Also browsing is fast enough as to not be distracting, it is like…

and tell us, what kind of activity requires such anonymity?

Asking for opinions on pictures of one's private parts while avoiding someone connecting that to your identity. I mean asking "is that pimple on my scrotum an STD", not advertising them.

Re: Operating a Tor Relay

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Post by pamperson »

loa_in_ wrote: post #99
pamperson wrote: post #88

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and tell us, what kind of activity requires such anonymity?

Asking for opinions on pictures of one's private parts while avoiding someone connecting that to your identity. I mean asking "is that pimple on my scrotum an STD", not advertising them.

good example but few non technical people would even know about tor, i am sure there are better options that dont necessarily help criminals hide there tracks
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