Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists Wasn't Told About Tor

Re:Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists W... by dublinben on Monday April 11, 2016 @02:45PM (#11474085)

Best practices for running an exit node cover most of these concerns.[0] The most important one the individuals here didn't follow is 'don't run your relay from home.' A properly registered tor exit relay running in a datacenter somewhere will attract a courteous inquiry, rather than a 6am raid.

[0]https://blog.torproject.org/running-exit-node

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Re:Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists W... by guelo on Monday April 11, 2016 @03:35PM (#11474471)

Yea but that means you have to spend extra money to run a Tor node, again limiting the amount of nodes that people are willing to run. The solution is for more people to run Tor, not fewer. Same with open Wifi nodes, the more the safer.

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Re:Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists W... by dublinben on Monday April 11, 2016 @04:18PM (#11474751)

If you want to contribute with your home broadband connection, a bridge relay is more appropriate. You can run an exit relay for as little as $5/mo with a VPS.

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Re:Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists W... by walrus01 on Monday April 11, 2016 @06:56PM (#11475811)

99% of all VPS providers (in the $5/mo category, not $75/mo) will kill your account for running an exit node. They do not want their blocks of ARIN, RIPE or APNIC ipv4 space listed in every abuse and spam swamp realtime black hole list in existence.

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Re:Judge Who Authorized Police Search of Privacy Activists W... by CaptSpify on Monday April 11, 2016 @05:39PM (#11475345)

If you run it in a DC, don't you risk exposure to someone cloning it and getting the data you have stored on it? No, you shouldn't keep sensitive data on it, I know, but still could be cloned/compromised without you knowing, right?

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