Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails

Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by j3097736 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:08PM (#12427180)

Yes, see http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/ and http://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/the-case-of-the-modifi...

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Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by nxzero on Sunday September 04, 2016 @07:19PM (#12427198)

Makes you wonder why Tor doesn't replicate this and send the nodes ghost traffic, poison pills, block the IPs, etc.

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Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by makomk on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:30AM (#12428913)

Last I heard, there was basically one guy handling all reports of malicious exit nodes, and I couldn't even get him to do anything about the ones very obviously intercepting traffic to Bitcoin wallets and injecting code that stole people's money

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Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by pjc50 on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:54AM (#12428995)

People are communicating with bitcoin wallets without end-to-end encryption?

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Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by paavokoya on Sunday September 04, 2016 @10:26PM (#12427757)

Sounds strenuous on an already slow network..

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Re:Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails by nbraud on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:51AM (#12430605)

There is automated tooling out there that is used to detect misbehaving exits, like ExitMap: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/phw/exitmap.git/

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