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Re:Operating a Tor Relay by vbezhenar on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:25AM (#23549469)
One reason would be to sniff cleartext traffic and extract useful info from it.
Re:Operating a Tor Relay by lozaning on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:14PM (#23553104)
Back when I was a younger, even more naive idiot, I ran a tor exit node on a server at home and one night had the idea to mirror that switch port and run software on another machine that would display all photos from a data stream.

Its one of the more regrettable decisions I've ever made. There is no computer advice I'd give anyone that I'd more desperately implore they follow than to never ever fucking look into that abyss.

Re:Operating a Tor Relay by Shared404 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:29AM (#23551835)
Almost everything is HTTPS at this point anyways though, so that's not as big an issue now iirc.

I guess the packet headers are still plaintext though, so there is that.