Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Lunar
Gordon Morehouse: Yeah... you guys would know better than me about that, but speaking from the perspective of a small fish, the exit-as-default torrc is a serious WTF? and always has been, given potential legal trouble in privacy-hostile countries. I have phrased this differently but I

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Thursday 31 Oct 2013 21:52:41 Roger Dingledine wrote: The main reason for this choice is the number of people who've told us that they are only able to run exit relays because it's what Tor does when you run a relay, and their institution wouldn't let them do it if it required a manual

Re: [tor-relays] max TCP interruption before Tor circuit teardown?

2013-11-01 Thread David Serrano
On 2013-10-31 10:04:02 (-0700), Gordon Morehouse wrote: I can't verify it, but my suspicion is this is happening when I get my Stable flag (I have no idea if I'd gotten it back this morning or not) or shortly thereafter. You can use https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html and enter

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread I
On the other hand the reports, of actual problems, don't seem to be many. The mutterings and rumours do seem to echo. Of the eighteen exit relays I've run (for just a few months) only a couple have brought letters over copyright and they were in the USA. I am having to deal with the providers's

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 05:37:14 I wrote: The advice on how to manage exit problems seems to be very sound and Tor is defensible because it is being abused by torrenting also. ...and this is something else I don't quite understand. People who know about Tor (which obviously includes exit

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Nelson
Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in stopping this sort of undesired traffic on Tor? On 11/1/2013 10:48 AM, Paritesh Boyeyoko

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:48:44 +, Paritesh Boyeyoko parity@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2013 05:37:14 I wrote: The advice on how to manage exit problems seems to be very sound and Tor is defensible because it is being abused by torrenting also. ...and this is something

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Gordon Morehouse
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:22:19 -0700, Nelson nel...@net2wireless.net wrote: Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in stopping this

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread krishna e bera
On 13-11-01 01:48 PM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2013 05:37:14 I wrote: The paper http://planete.inrialpes.fr/papers/TorTraffic-NSS10.pdf shows 54.48% of the traffic passing through the sample exit nodes was BiTorrent traffic. Isnt that about the same percentage on the

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 11:22:19 Nelson wrote: Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in stopping this sort of undesired traffic on

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Lunar
Nelson: Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in stopping this sort of undesired traffic on Tor? No. If the relay says it will

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 19:36:11 krishna e bera wrote: Isnt that about the same percentage on the non-Tor internet? Probably. :) It would help if most bittorrent trackers enforced sharing ratios of around 1:1 (since Tor clients cannot accept incoming connections, unless on a .onion HS).

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 01:27 +0100, Lunar wrote: Nelson: Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be somewhat effective in stopping this sort of

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Paritesh Boyeyoko
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 20:57:54 Ted Smith wrote: On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 01:27 +0100, Lunar wrote: Nelson: Please excuse my ignorance operating Tor relays, but if I run an exit node on Windows 7 and use something like Peerblock and correspoding block lists of P2P sites, wouldn't this be

Re: [tor-relays] Amazon abuse report

2013-11-01 Thread Gordon Morehouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Paritesh Boyeyoko: On Friday 01 Nov 2013 19:36:11 krishna e bera wrote: On the other hand, i had a reduced exit policy and still got DMCA complaints just for the .torrent file being downloaded via HTTP through my exit. Let me run a couple