-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Roger Dingledine: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 06:12:47PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: >> That's correct, it takes a deliberate action on the part of the >> administrator to become a relay; and another deliberate action to >> become an exit relay. > > Actually, that second part isn't true. Once you decide to become a > relay, the default is to exit to most popular ports.
I don't think this is a good enough reason these days, when people who haven't read the fine fine print are putting them up on VPSes. A friend of mine did it and had to get his Linode IP changed after getting on a bunch of blacklists in like two days. > (If you're using Vidalia to configure your relay, it makes you > choose whether you want to be a non-exit relay or an exit relay. > But just Tor by itself, the default exit policy is in the man > page.) > > 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 config change to become an > exit. 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. $.02 Best, - -Gordon M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJScxIWAAoJED/jpRoe7/ujHZsIAIoedsRc9ZY1xtcEBPFzJvCl NS7kJKDBvLJJKl7W5RjF5y3/iSBmBJzSHUm10mJDn81hQB+wlbwud4mRjQUXhsFl +xC85z5PB65k8AvPALsMtOpw6A9XOL7ure9Gua7uUDGkn/bLaiu70sFCiy6aY5dB 24HVgppSL6K6zGAE6rEFNaYsdTOvf3MSBCUTvAVA2Vhya8oQKMaE92dUrYr9I95n k7RSQdgNN93c2K2e1wV1WoSXsSqahCtf2FiG2ZtXmf6arp2Zdc9ONy7iKsfkrbR6 jj24lJ45bVx3rDlShhNGxpGZ4LMFUirpaZh0+LemIWiXU4PH6HsjjVSD4FCF1Fo= =r+c5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays