[tor-relays] How to handle an abuse report

Ch'Gans chgans at gna.org
Wed May 14 14:06:17 UTC 2014



On 15/05/14 01:02, Ed Carter wrote:
> The abuse reply templates located at
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorAbuseTemplates
> contain some good ideas about how to reply to various complaints.

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the link, I still haven't decided yet how to handle this, but 
for the sake of record, this link might be useful too: 
https://www.torservers.net/wiki/abuse/templates


Chris



>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since 3 weeks, I'm running a TOR exit node [1] on a server I rent from
>> Hetzner (A German hosting company), after reading about using Hetzner to
>> run a TOR node, I decided to go for the "restricted" mode to avoid any
>> stupid copywrong issue (That is, I allowed only a limited set of ports,
>> which sadly excludes p2p).
>>
>> Everything went well so far, until today. Someone, let's call this
>> person/group "A", reported an abuse to Hetzner. A TOR User, "B", is
>> spamming chat/forums with vociferous insults and disrespectful messages,
>> I got a copy of few of them and the insults from B are as bad as the
>> ideas defended by A, but I'm not here to judge anyone...
>>
>>   From A's timezone, it happened from the 9th of May, 8:20PM to the 10th
>> of May, 2:30 AM. Given the nature of the TOR network, I assumed that it
>> is very unlikely that stupid-B will use my server's IP to insult
>> stupid-A any time soon... or is it?
>>
>> Now, I have to report to Hetzner, I will tell them that I'm running a
>> TOR exit node in "restricted" mode, but how can I defend myself, I am
>> not sure that my "restricted node" and "given the nature of the TOR
>> network" arguments will convinced them the Hetzner dudes.
>>
>> Could anyone gives advice, feedback or stories on how to deal with this
>> situation?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Chris
>>
>> [1]
>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/18B6EBAF10814335242ECA5705A04AAD29774078
>>
>> --
>> QtCreator/qmakeparser.cpp:42
>> ////////// Parser ///////////
>> #define fL1S(s) QString::fromLatin1(s)
>> namespace { // MSVC2010 doesn't seem to know the semantics of "static" ...
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QtCreator/qmakeparser.cpp:42
////////// Parser ///////////
#define fL1S(s) QString::fromLatin1(s)
namespace { // MSVC2010 doesn't seem to know the semantics of "static" ...


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