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why would you want to be secretive about running a relay? You're varying the "if you've got nothing to hide" argument. You would want to be secretive because s
by madaxe_again 12y ago
why would you want to be secretive about running a relay?
You're varying the "if you've got nothing to hide" argument. You would want to be secretive because spy agencies quite definitely ARE interested in who's running nodes, as if they know who runs the nodes, and where they are, shutting the thing down becomes possible.
This is how they think. Strategic opportunity. Not what they can do with the data today, but what they could use it for tomorrow. What opportunities they might lose if they didn't have it.
This is therefore how you need to think too, and why I think that volunteering this information is a bad idea.
- roryokane 12y agoHe’s not just varying “if you’ve got nothing to hide”. He’s giving an active reason for sharing that you’re an exit relay, not just saying that you have no reason not to share, so you might as well. The reason for publicizing that you’re running a relay is that it reduces the probability of being falsely accused of doing illegal things that someone else was using your exit relay for, and it makes it easier for you to recover any confiscated computers. If you publicize your running of a relay in advance, then the prosecutor might see that fact and not bother prosecuting you, knowing that you were not the origin of the illegal traffic.