On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:44:04 +0100 Olaf Selke <olaf.se...@blutmagie.de> wrote: >Germershausen wrote: > >> Become a tor developer and write >> a module that helps to ban all bittorent traffic from the tor network. > >I'm strongly against equipping Tor with the ability to filter exit >traffic based on the content. That's exactly what governments and
I would add that such behavior in itself would justify BadExit status. >Hollywood lobbyists nowadays are trying to enforce by law. Besides it's >only the exit node operator's decision what kind of traffic is unwanted. >At least I don't consider bittorrent protocol over Tor as unwanted >traffic for my exit node. I'm not the Internet Gestapo! Correct on all points. > >The only reason default filesharing protocol ports are denied in my exit >policy is lacking cpu power to handle additional filesharing traffic. > And that is certainly your decision to make and not that of people like Germershausen because it is *your* tor relay and *your* computer system, not theirs. What is it that keeps drawing control freaks out of the woodwork and onto this list anyway? Jeesh... Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************