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I'm a strong advocate of the Tor project, but man would I ever be afraid to be an exit node
by lukejduncan 14y ago
I'm a strong advocate of the Tor project, but man would I ever be afraid to be an exit node
- mburns 14y agoIt is worth noting that you can run Tor in non-exit mode, but still route (secure, encrypted) tunnels around for other Tor users. This is (ideally) how every Tor user should act, if at all possible.
- traskjd 14y agoBeing pedantic, but if EVERYONE did that surely you'd never reach the actual internet right? :-)
- ufmace 14y agoI thought that Tor was hard-coded to always use 3 nodes between you and the internet, no matter how many there are in the system.
- scoot 14y agoYou are being pedantic, as it's pretty obvious that mburns meant TOR end-users, as distinct from those donating exit node bandwidth.
- mburns 14y agoFair point. :) To take your pedant to its extreme, though, using Tor Hidden Services entirely inside the Tor network is more secure than using a Tor exit node to access web sites outside of Tor. If you hear about sites like the Silk Road, those exist only inside the Tor network, you can't (directly) reach them the 'actual internet' / the Web.
- lukejduncan 14y agoTrue. In fact I personally do this. I really want to run an exit node, but I'm also terrified of having my apartment raided and turned upside down for traffic flowing out of my place.