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Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by marshray on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @09:31PM (#11435963)
> mingling your personal traffic with a Tor exit node provides plausible deniability for both you and the people using your node

Wouldn't it be more effective to simply use Tor as intended with somebody else hosting the exit node?

Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by thescriptkiddie on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @04:34PM (#11441853)
In this scenario you are the somebody else hosting the exit node. For the anonymous strangers using the exit node you are hosting for them, they benefit from having their traffic mingled with yours because theirs won't stand out as much. For you, you benefit from having the anonymous strangers' traffic mingled with yours because anyone spying on you will be very confused.
Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by marshray on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @05:07PM (#11442113)
My guess is that a professional analyst is not going to be particularly confused by the addition of a single user's non-Tor traffic to the firehose stream coming out of an exit node.

But that's just my guess. Perhaps somebody should ask @snowden.

Re:Tor exit node operator gets raided by police by thescriptkiddie on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:47PM (#11450065)
You've got the proportions backwards. A typical Tor exit node only provides a few hundred kib/s of bandwidth, maybe a couple of mib/s for the more generous one. Your traffic, or even the neighbor mooching your WiFi, will be the firehose stream in comparison to that.