Re:UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
by gknoy on Friday July 26, 2013 @12:53PM
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If I were to run an exit node or a relay node, how would I mitigate the rare-but-potentially-life-destroying risk that my machine is identified as trafficking in illegal bits, due to relaying/exiting traffic of that nature from the anonymized network? I would be happy to donate bandwidth, but that risk is something which I don't feel is acceptable.
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Re:UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
by cmpctyd on Friday July 26, 2013 @02:24PM
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A normal, non-exit relay node will not be identified as "trafficking in illegal bits" by any sane police force. A normal relay will trade from A to B in only encrypted traffic and will not touch websites on the behalf of users, only other relays.
It is rare that an exit node is raided but there has been no known occurrence in which a normal relay was raided.. nor would it make any sense for there to be. Many people run non-exit relays as they are uncomfortable with the risk of exiting for the Tor network, perhaps you should be one of them.
Re:UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
by majika on Friday July 26, 2013 @02:21PM
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That isn't a risk for relay nodes, because you would be relaying encrypted traffic. It would just be noise.
For exit nodes, the issue of legal liability for routing other's traffic is less clear. You'd basically run the same risks as providing an open wireless network: https://openwireless.org/myths-legal