I was very inspired by Jacob Appelbaum's talk he gave at
For now our ToS allows Tor nodes. but please be advised they are really easy to abuse.
We will try to protect the
I'm considering of setting up a Tor exit node.
The Tor
In any case a
and anonymity system used by whistle blowers, journalists, Chinese
dissidents skirting the Great Firewall,
targets, the US military,
See https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en for more info.
Unfortunately, some people misuse the network. However, compared to
the rate of legitimate use (the IP range in question processes nearly
a gigabit of traffic per second), abuse complaints are rare.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en
Am I allowed to order a new instance and running a Tor exit node on it?
There are some ISPs who do that, and they forward abuse mails to the account holder. There are several lawyers behind the Tor project just for these cases.
I'm looking forward to your answer.
Best regards,
Claude
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"A free and open world depends on a free and open web. And a free and open web depends on us."
https://twitter.com/ServerAstra/status/271218408190779393 ;-)
Happy New Year!