Re: TOR and non-contineous internet connections

2007-12-31 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 9teen wrote: Georg Sluyterman wrote: (snip) Why? worst case: you might get your home searched or computers taken away (for some time). At least you may need to write letters again and again explaining to some officials, that you run a TOR

TOR and non-contineous internet connections

2007-12-30 Thread Florian D.
Hi folks, I like the TOR project and want to participate. My question: Is it a good idea to set up a server, which is not connected to the internet contineously? -- i.e. I turn on my computer, when I come home from work and turn it off at bedtime, so it runs several hours a day - is this enough?

Re: TOR and non-contineous internet connections

2007-12-30 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian D. wrote: Hi folks, I like the TOR project and want to participate. My question: Is it a good idea to set up a server, which is not connected to the internet contineously? -- i.e. I turn on my computer, when I come home from work and turn

Re: TOR and non-contineous internet connections

2007-12-30 Thread Georg Sluyterman
Alexander W. Janssen wrote: ---snip--- (...) although I wouldn't advice you run a Tor-node at home if you want to be an Exit-Node. Why? -- Regards Georg

Re: TOR and non-contineous internet connections

2007-12-30 Thread 9teen
Georg Sluyterman wrote: Alexander W. Janssen wrote: ---snip--- (...) although I wouldn't advice you run a Tor-node at home if you want to be an Exit-Node. Why? worst case: you might get your home searched or computers taken away (for some time). At least you may need to write letters

Re: TOR and non-contineous internet connections

2007-12-30 Thread Florian D.
9teen wrote: But bridge-relays or non-exit nodes are also fine and and help the TOR network as well. ok, thx for the answers, will do that.