<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Exit nodes with equal bandwidth may well do. Unfortunately that one is now a Guard do throughput will probably go down.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">US just has alot of people trying to exit there - so its always busy - I find Tor follows the money mostly - high concentration in W.Europe and US but drops sharply anywhere else - </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- availability of cheap vps and bandwidth</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- open selling no censored or overwatched registration</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- decent home bandwidth and internet availability so lots of users</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">- education - alot of people in censored countries are not always aware or bothered </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">(Take the UK - most of my friends not interested in privacy or snooping at all they dont even realise that ISPs block websites en masse) </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Attacks via Tor are mostly from poorer countries to richer countries</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Eastern Europe is mostly out connections - US mostly inbound for instance </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">As for diversity people want us to geo diverse but the payoff in terms of usuage is low so its up to you </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">My relay in Canada is practically melting so usuage seems high - although nodal choice should be random it does seem to select based on the relative location of desired exit ( might not be true but seems like it) therefore US ,Canada ,France are really busy but Africa / Eastern Europe / Far East less so </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Location doesnt matter it depends where you are based - if your server is in Panama but youre in the UK and unless your are operating a company there then you are liable if they ever decide to pursue exit operators ( doubtful but possible) - as regards prosecution they would have to prove intent which under Tor is pretty impossible to do </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">If you are wortied about that relays are the safe bet or do a reduced reduced exit policy which stops most of the 'economic' abuse they are really bothered about </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>regards<div><br></div><div>Mark B</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On 8 Dec 2016, at 10:32, Chris Adams <<a href="mailto:chris@chrisada.co.uk">chris@chrisada.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Interesting...<br><br></div>Don't exit nodes with equal bandwidth have equal chance of being utilised on a circuit? Why is your US exit being utilised more?<br><br></div>Looking at the map, I thought Canada could do with a few more exits?<br><br></div>Should geo diversity be related to numbers of internet users in that country? Ie, Canada, ~1/2 population of UK, so should run approximately 1/2 as many exits at least? Or am I overthinking this?<br><br></div><div>Are there other legal advantages to running an exit node in another country? Such as choosing a country with which your own country has no extradition laws? In case something really bad happened.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div><br></div>C<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Sec INT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sec.int9@gmail.com" target="_blank">sec.int9@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ive got exits in the US, France ,Finland (dead) and Bulgaria but its v difficult to find any exit providers in the Far East - I have relays in Bangalore and Singapore (which gets hit pretty hard) but if you do find a provider out East let us know<br>
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P.s Bangalore is under utilised - 60mb/s but has barely used up 1Gb in 2 weeks a as oppsed to US exit which is doing 1TB a day now at 60mb/s with a 1000 connections most of the time<br>
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We are supposed to go for geo diversity but usuage remains low for me in more isolated areas e.g Bangalore,Africa<br>
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> On 8 Dec 2016, at 09:53, Chris Adams <<a href="mailto:chris@chrisada.co.uk">chris@chrisada.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> I want to start up another exit node. I have a few choices for which country it's in. I currently live in a country with quite a high exit node/population density.<br>
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> Are there any advantages to distributing nodes around the globe in terms of performance/privacy?<br>
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> Are there some countries where you definitely shouldn't run exit nodes? (Censored internet is an obvious example)<br>
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> C<br>
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