Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit-node

Re:Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit... by radarsat1 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @05:35PM (#14101990)

If you actually think you run a high risk of being raided for your behaviour, is it ethical to put some poor saps running your data center in that position instead of you?

Admittedly, I guess data centers run this risk automatically by the fact of providing data storage/transfer services.

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Re:Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit... by nbraud on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:40PM (#14135389)

I am involved in a non-profit that operates Tor exit nodes for a while ( https://nos-oignons.net ), and before then I was running exit nodes on my own.

The main benefit of setting up a non-profit is not shifting the risk to “the poor saps in the data center”: the police isn't going to kick down the door of the datacenter any more than they would raid your ISP.

The main benefit is that you get listed as abuse contact, and you get contacted the same way an ISP gets contacted: you get a somewhat-polite email (or a fax <3) asking who that IP address belongs to. At that point, you can explain what Tor is and that you do not know the origin of the connection; somehow, it's more difficult to have that conversation when you are in an interrogation room, talking to someone likely believes you are guilty.

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Re:Russian FOSS activist arrested in Russia for his Tor exit... by scott_karana on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:37PM (#14102373)

It's also ethical to warn the data centre of your intentions, if their ToS doesn't explicitly exclude Tor exits already.

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