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While obviously useful for the poor souls that live in backwards dictatorships/monarchies like north korea and the uk. i dont personally think tor exit nodes ar

• roywiggins 10y ago
  I was under the impression allowing people to access the internet at large is explicitly part of Tor's design. If you want something more inward-facing, I2P seems to lean in that direction. I2P's comparison with Tor suggests this too: https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor Tor: "Designed and optimized for exit traffic, with a large number of exit nodes" I2P: "Designed and optimized for hidden services, which are much faster than in Tor"
  • mSparks 10y ago
    yes, but my point was I think its a "bad" design. It is not part of the internet, if servers want to provide "anonymous" access they can provide a tor address. But if they don't, then accessing a standard webserver via tor is very little different than any of the other means of illegitimately accessing computers. ->web access via tor seems like a lot of effort to provide what is little more than providing "hacking" services against normal webservers. I would much rather see for example: https://thepiratebay.se.onion https://thepiratebay.se.onion where tor contacts the dns for thepiratebay.se to get the underlying onion address to use. much better all round than either going through an exit node (most of which are malicious) to thepiratebay.se or trying to remember uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion or whatever it has changed to now.