The past days I made some short tcpdump traces to find out what
people use TOR for. Well, it's kind of sad. A short analyse of the
hostnames gave me the result:
It's hard to abstract a top 10 list of hostnames seen into the
concept of discrete users, especially over shared medium like an
exit
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One more point to note, please do not log or try to search for what
users are using your exit for. I run a lot of exits myself and I know
when starting out you can get curious, but it is a slippery road. If
you keep logs on the exit server of user
Hello List,
I first heard from TOR after the leaks of snowden and started to read a
lot about TOR but never used it - and I still don't use it (I just don't
have the need for it).
Before christmas I started a tor relay on my dedicated server. To be
clear: Just a normal middle relay with 100
With that philosophy of yours maybe you'd be better off running an
unlisted bridge (bridge relay) ? Those seem aimed squarely at helping
people evade government censorship and national firewalls. May be more
close to the type of service you'd like to be providing ?
Josef 'veloc1ty'
Hello Chris,
apart from that I'm also running a bridge on a different IP. The point
is really the relay.
~Josef
Am 16.01.2015 um 21:54 schrieb Chris Dagdigian:
With that philosophy of yours maybe you'd be better off running an
unlisted bridge (bridge relay) ? Those seem aimed squarely at
Hi Josef,
Exit nodes provide most value to the network, as they will also be able
to handle entry and middle traffic.
As for porn: maybe the wiki page on porn legality [1] explains it. Also
note that this kind of traffic helps to mask other kinds of Tor traffic,
essentially helping the
On 2015-01-16 12:40, Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner wrote:
The past days I made some short tcpdump traces to find out what people
use TOR for. Well, it's kind of sad. A short analyse of the hostnames
gave me the result: 80% Porn, 10% site crawling, 5% Wordpress comment
spam and 5% human traffic.
I
Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner wrote:Long story short: What type of
relay helps the TOR project more?
Exit-Relay or Middle-relay? Is it really the job from TOR to provide
an exit to the normal internet resources or should the focus be on
hidden services?
First, thank you for operating a Tor node.
On 01/16/2015 02:00 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
Hi Josef,
Exit nodes provide most value to the network, as they will also be able
to handle entry and middle traffic.
As for porn: maybe the wiki page on porn legality [1] explains it. Also
note that this kind of traffic helps to mask
