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You can be arrested for running an exit node, because other Tor users' traffic will appear to be coming from you. For example: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/
by kbrackbill 8y ago
You can be arrested for running an exit node, because other Tor users' traffic will appear to be coming from you.
For example:
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/05/01/russian-tor-exit-node-operator-arrested/ https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/05/01/russian-tor-exit-node-...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dan-egerstads-tor-exit-nodes-get-him-arrested-and-proves-a-point-i-made-in-july/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/dan-egerstads-tor-exit-nodes-g...
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2452320/tor-exit-node-operator-convicted-of-abetting-spread-of-child-porn.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/2452320/tor-exit-node-operat...
- jerheinze 8y agoAll of them from people running their exit from home, which has always been warned against.
- benevol 8y agoJust use some cheap VPN service in front of your Tor/Firefox browser (which most people should do in any case) and you're good to go.
- Yoric 8y agoHow does this affect exit nodes?
- benevol 8y agoIf you're worried that law enforcement will knock on your door because somebody used your exit node for illegal internet activity, a VPN service (that does not log traffic) will give you additional protection by exposing their IP address, not yours.
- tscs37 8y agoA lot of VPN services forbid running exit nodes in their ToS as it tends to trash IP reputation...
- jerheinze 8y agoThat has no relation to the cases above which were of people running Tor exit nodes from their home. If one wants to hide their Tor usage then that's something else and there are pluggable transports that are already built-in the Tor Browser to obfuscate Tor traffic to look like something else--no need for a VPN.
- Exuma 8y agoWhere is the recommended place to run one?
- jerheinze 8y agohttps://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISPs https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/GoodBadISP... (Also check the new relay guide: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide)
- mirimir 8y agoAlso get on the tor-relays@lists.torproject.org mail list. But the sad truth is that there aren't that many hosting providers that allow Tor relays. Especially exit relays, because of abuse complaints. Also, as you might expect, Tor relays can use lots of bandwidth. It's more common to get flat-rate bandwidth for 100 Mbps uplinks, and metered bandwidth for 1 Gbps uplinks. Digital Ocean, for example, just switched to metered bandwidth, and that has killed some relays. However, all this could arguably change, if Tor became mainstream, as part of Firefox.
- jabn76 8y agoLooks like a cheap escape from jail card. Run an exit node and then do something illegal. Then blame it on someone else.
- jerheinze 8y agoWhy take that trouble when they can do it directly using Tor without running any exit at home? Also for instance Bogatov had an alibi when that happened.
- jabn76 8y agoMost forums ban all Tor exits.
- jerheinze 8y ago> Most forums ban all Tor exits. So running an exit at home to coverup for posting on a forum that bans all Tor exits, that makes no sense.
- mirimir 8y agoHN doesn't :)
- philipkglass 8y agoThe forum I run only bans IP addresses caught posting link-spam. Which, admittedly, asymptotically approached 100% of Tor exit nodes before I instituted more rapid ban-expiration. I added faster ban-expiration after hearing from some of my privacy-conscious users that Tor had become unusable for my forum.
- drexlspivey 8y agoDid you miss the part where exit node operators are getting arrested?
- jabn76 8y agoThey sometimes are. Not always. And they walk out free, except for that Jewish guy who lived in Austria (I can’t remember his name but he was the only one to get in real trouble for running an exit node).