Opinions on Tor?

[Tom Buskey]

If you run a relay, you're just providing bandwidth.  For an exit node, all
kinds of traffic would come from your IP.  I don't want the RIAA or anyone
else sending me a legal notice for something someone else did.

As for security, back in 2007...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/09/anonymity_and_t_1.html.
Also, FWIW, Silk Road was on Tor and still taken down with effective
detective work.  It's not secure.

In some ways, I'm surprised the library in my home town was the 1st, but
maybe I shouldn't.  Lots of interesting 1sts happened in the Upper Valley
area.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Curt Howland <Howland at priss.com> wrote:

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> On Friday 11 September 2015, Matt Minuti was heard to say:
> > I've only used Tor for a few minutes, maybe 5 years ago, just to
> > try it out, but I've always loved the idea. It would be great (and
> > totally an ALA sort of thing to do) if libraries all over ran
> > nodes, especially exit nodes, since aren't those the ones in short
> > supply?
>
> I had thought that the library was running an exit node, but no, all
> this is just over running a relay.
>
> Heck, I'm running a relay myself. apt-get install tor
>
> What I would not dare to do is run an exit node, even though doing so
> would be a public service. Too many three-letter-agencies.
>
> > Aren't a huge number of nodes operated by the three-letter-agencies
> > anyways?
>
> They'd be crazy not to, sniffing all the way.
>
> - --
> You may my glories and my state dispose,
> But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
>  --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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