Re:Operating a Tor Relay
by jrwr on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:42AM
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I ran a exit relay outbound over a VPN Tunnel for its internet access, I was mostly just interested in what kind of traffic people are doing. (Its one of the downfalls of Tor, the Exit Nodes are prone to sniffing) and the sheer amount of porn was amazing.
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I'd be interested to know statistics on Tor usage. I get that people espouse it's intended legitimate privacy purposes, but I would expect that even the most ardent supporters would acknowledge that it's probably 1% "legitimate" use and 99% illegal or gray-area use (the latter being things like torrents, or porn that's not illegal but embarrassing if people knew about).
I wonder at what point the supporters of Tor would continue to support it. What if it were 0.0001% genuine needs for privacy, and 99.9999% illegal stuff?
Perhaps I'm totally wrong though. Do such statistics exist?