In another vein, being an exit for even a brief period of time puts your IP on a website identifying you as such and you will find yourself banned from some (many?) irc servers and/or banned from posting at certain blogs. Irritating but there you go.
On Saturday 13 December 2008 15:46:14 Jon wrote: > krishna e bera wrote: > > It is unlikely that the content in question was ever on your computer > >at all, because Tor does not transfer UDP packets (used by bittorrent for data) [...] > > After looking at several dozen automated DMCA letters, > > i noticed that all but a few point to tracker websites for ThePirateBay. > > I decided to add the ip addresses for those tracker websites to my reject list > > > and have not received a DMCA notice for a few weeks now. > > Although this technically rejects some web (http) traffic, > > it seems to me just an extension of the exit policy rejecting > > bittorrent ports > > > because those tracker ip addresses are primarily used for setting up > > p2p transfers. > > > I'm paying $100 a month in bandwidth fees to facilitate anonymous > > communication > > > for activists etc - not to subsidize consumption of games and movies. > > Yes i know p2p can carry all sorts of content; > > if there is lots of "legitimate" stuff available via ThePirateBay my > > attitude could change. > > > Feedback on this is welcome. > > Your attitude I think is correct. I mean to say, yes, your intent for > your relay is for censorship frustration, not games, movies, et > cetera. I think your implementation is correct also. I run a relay > without any exit permitted. The only reason I do this, is because I > do not want to deal with any complaints ranging from DMCA, hacking, > child exploitation transiting my link. If I ever decide to permit > exiting, it will be on a dedicated server that I would pay for, > located elsewhere. I just wish there were a better way to inspect the > traffic and disallow certain traffic. Don't get me wrong, I'm not > advocating that any relay inspect any traffic, just that illegal > traffic transiting outside my link could land me in trouble. Perhaps > thoughtworthy. -- "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." --H.G. Wells