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Anyone running a proxy? I definitely want to give back and it would not be a problem to run one, are there any security implications I need to consider? looking

Anyone running a proxy? I definitely want to give back and it would not be a problem to run one, are there any security implications I need to consider? looking at their Faq it seems safe enough...

WelcomeShorty 5y ago
When you consider running an exit on your home IP: you will be blocked by Netflix.
- angularbot77 5y ago
  Snowflake is not an exit node though, just an intermediary
thejosh 5y ago
I ran a bridge for a while, had no problems with anything as I was just a bridge. Had a decent connection when I did.
samhw 5y ago
I'm running one. It seems totally fine, and I'd really strongly recommend doing it. Remember you have to leave a tab open for it to work. The website doesn't emphasise this enough, in my view. If you simply pin the tab, it'll be (a) very persistent and hard to accidentally close, and (b) totally inconspicuous, so I recommend doing that. I'd also strongly recommend running a full Tor node. The best way we can support Tor is to flood the zone with proxies, so it's no longer possible for intelligence agencies to control quora of Tor entry and exit nodes, as they very likely do. If you live in the developed world and have a good internet connection, I think it's a civic duty to redistribute your bandwidth - to socialise the means of conduction. Edit: 'Quora' was probably a poor choice of word, since a quorum implies consensus between nodes, as in a distributed system. It's really about intelligence agencies controlling _majorities_ of nodes - or even a large number - so as to make it more statistically likely that any given Tor circuit will begin and end with a node under one's control.
- jerheinze 5y ago
  > Remember you have to leave a tab open for it to work Better yet just install the Snowflake addon (available for both Firefox and Chrome), so it becomes more of a set-and-forget thing.
makeworld 5y ago
I've been running one for years, after hearing a presentation on the system at the OurNetworks conference in Toronto. Haven't had any issues with it, and it's cool to see when I've helped a person or two in the last 24 hours.

Anyone running a proxy? I definitely want to give back and it would not be a problem to run one, are there any security implications I need to consider? looking at their Faq it seems safe enough...

WelcomeShorty 5y ago

When you consider running an exit on your home IP: you will be blocked by Netflix.

angularbot77 5y ago
Snowflake is not an exit node though, just an intermediary

thejosh 5y ago

I ran a bridge for a while, had no problems with anything as I was just a bridge. Had a decent connection when I did.

samhw 5y ago

I'm running one. It seems totally fine, and I'd really strongly recommend doing it. Remember you have to leave a tab open for it to work. The website doesn't emphasise this enough, in my view. If you simply pin the tab, it'll be (a) very persistent and hard to accidentally close, and (b) totally inconspicuous, so I recommend doing that. I'd also strongly recommend running a full Tor node. The best way we can support Tor is to flood the zone with proxies, so it's no longer possible for intelligence agencies to control quora of Tor entry and exit nodes, as they very likely do. If you live in the developed world and have a good internet connection, I think it's a civic duty to redistribute your bandwidth - to socialise the means of conduction. Edit: 'Quora' was probably a poor choice of word, since a quorum implies consensus between nodes, as in a distributed system. It's really about intelligence agencies controlling _majorities_ of nodes - or even a large number - so as to make it more statistically likely that any given Tor circuit will begin and end with a node under one's control.

jerheinze 5y ago
> Remember you have to leave a tab open for it to work Better yet just install the Snowflake addon (available for both Firefox and Chrome), so it becomes more of a set-and-forget thing.

makeworld 5y ago

I've been running one for years, after hearing a presentation on the system at the OurNetworks conference in Toronto. Haven't had any issues with it, and it's cool to see when I've helped a person or two in the last 24 hours.