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Interestingly enough, there are multiple exit nodes in Russia, as far as I know, law enforcements aren't taking them down
by o999 2y ago
Interestingly enough, there are multiple exit nodes in Russia, as far as I know, law enforcements aren't taking them down
- xkjyeah 2y agoIsn't that scarier, knowing that you're using a state-sanctioned exit node?
- gea0 2y agoRegarding exit nodes, you have to assume the worst anyways, so it should not change much.
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoIn parallel with gea0's comment, using a Russian state-sanctioned exit node would make tracing efforts difficult-to-impossible for western government / law enforcement.
- _l219 2y agoIf I was Russian, sure. I think it’s best to always use exit nodes/proxies in geopolitically opposed countries to prevent collaboration between states. E.g. use western VPNs while in China, use Russian/Chinese tunnels in the west.
- alexey-salmin 2y agoDmitry Bogatov had spent 5 months in detention center and 6 more months under a house arrest on terrorism charges for running an exit node. This was 2017 however and I'm surprised too that crackdown on other exit nodes didn't follow.
- bauruine 2y agoMost (all?) of them aren't in Russia. I run half of the "Russian" exits and they are in Norway they just use Russian IPs.
- tessierashpool9 2y agohow about a Show HN?
- bauruine 2y agoAbout what? Running Tor nodes is pretty boring as long as you don't get a police visit which I luckily didn't have till now.
- tessierashpool9 2y agoyou have a german nick name suggesting you are german, you run tor nodes in norway which appear to be located in russia ... i think that is already a lot of technically interesting stuff. also many people would probably like to understand why you do it and how much you spend for this hobby(?).
- o999 2y agoThat sounds like a good way to run exit nodes without getting your home raided
- mbs159 2y agoHow did you implement that? Tailscale?
- bauruine 2y agoIt's the provider I'm using that does it for the Tor exits people host with them. I don't have my own IPv4 space, which is something like 8k$ for the smallest useful subnet and that's too expensive for a hobby. They just have a Russian ASN and IP space but it's still located in Norway.