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All of them from people running their exit from home, which has always been warned against.

benevol 8y ago
Just 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 ago
  How does this affect exit nodes?
  - benevol 8y ago
    If 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 ago
      A lot of VPN services forbid running exit nodes in their ToS as it tends to trash IP reputation...
- jerheinze 8y ago
  That 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 ago
Where is the recommended place to run one?
- jerheinze 8y ago
  https://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 ago
    Also 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.

Just 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 ago
How does this affect exit nodes?
- benevol 8y ago
  If 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 ago
    A lot of VPN services forbid running exit nodes in their ToS as it tends to trash IP reputation...
jerheinze 8y ago
That 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 ago

Where is the recommended place to run one?

jerheinze 8y ago
https://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 ago
  Also 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.