Re:BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
by driverdan on Thursday October 24, 2019 @10:45AM
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The network needs both. Too much centralization is a threat to anonymity so it needs users running nodes. At the same time you shouldn't run an exit at home on a consumer connection. Relays are fine though.
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Re:BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
by snagglegaggle on Thursday October 24, 2019 @04:41PM
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Saying you shouldn't run an exit node at home is accepting that Tor has mainly fraudulent uses. More people need to run it from home so it becomes accepted as a normal Internet usecase.
Re:BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror
by LeifCarrotson on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:33PM
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It doesn't have to be even close to "mainly fraudulent uses". If just 0.01% of users use it for illegal stuff that will get your home network connection shut down, and an exit node sees a thousand different users a month, then it would be unwise to host an exit node at home.