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The problem with running Tor nodes in a datacenter is that mingling your personal traffic with a Tor exit node provides plausible deniability for both you and t
by thescriptkiddie 11y ago
The problem with running Tor nodes in a datacenter is that mingling your personal traffic with a Tor exit node provides plausible deniability for both you and the people using your node. It's impossible for an advisory to know which traffic is yours and which isn't. Dedicated Tor nodes are suspicious (and often get blacklisted) because they aren't a source of "legitimate" traffic, but Tor nodes run in people's homes don't.
- marshray 11y ago> mingling your personal traffic with a Tor exit node provides plausible deniability for both you and the people using your node Wouldn't it be more effective to simply use Tor as intended with somebody else hosting the exit node?
- thescriptkiddie 11y agoIn this scenario you are the somebody else hosting the exit node. For the anonymous strangers using the exit node you are hosting for them, they benefit from having their traffic mingled with yours because theirs won't stand out as much. For you, you benefit from having the anonymous strangers' traffic mingled with yours because anyone spying on you will be very confused.
- marshray 11y agoMy guess is that a professional analyst is not going to be particularly confused by the addition of a single user's non-Tor traffic to the firehose stream coming out of an exit node. But that's just my guess. Perhaps somebody should ask @snowden.
- thescriptkiddie 11y agoYou've got the proportions backwards. A typical Tor exit node only provides a few hundred kib/s of bandwidth, maybe a couple of mib/s for the more generous one. Your traffic, or even the neighbor mooching your WiFi, will be the firehose stream in comparison to that.