<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Okay, you are from the US. Tor is legal in the US and legal in EU. You should be fine. I would not recommend running a Tor Exit if you are from Russia, UAE or Turkey. I used to have 20 Exists with <a href="http://Online.net" class="">Online.net</a> and I got lots of abuse but they were fine after verifying me. And by the way, you dont have much choice with traffic flat and Tor exit friendly anyway.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Markus</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19. Jan 2018, at 01:20, Fabian A. Santiago <<a href="mailto:fsantiago@garbage-juice.com" class="">fsantiago@garbage-juice.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On January 18, 2018 6:26:40 PM EST, Mirimir <<a href="mailto:mirimir@riseup.net" class="">mirimir@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 01/18/2018 11:54 AM, niftybunny wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">You will held responsible to your actions (traffic). So worst case<br class=""></blockquote>scenario is: They give your personal data to a LEA and you are now in<br class="">charge to explain to a LEO that this is a Tor Exit. <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Depends on your country if this is a good idea. If you dont want any<br class=""></blockquote>personal data with your VPS, get a bulletproof VPS but even offshore<br class="">ISPs ban Tor Exists together with CP and hate speech. <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Welcome to the wonderful world of Tor Exists.<br class="">Enjoy your stay.<br class=""><br class="">Markus<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">How about HostSailor? They accept Bitcoin, and don't authenticate<br class="">customers. But I don't know how they'd handle Tor relays.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 18. Jan 2018, at 23:45, Fabian A. Santiago<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><<a href="mailto:fsantiago@garbage-juice.com" class="">fsantiago@garbage-juice.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">January 18, 2018 4:50 PM, "George" <<a href="mailto:george@queair.net" class="">george@queair.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">niftybunny:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><a href="http://online.net" class="">online.net</a> <<a href="http://online.net" class="">http://online.net</a>><br class=""><a href="http://trabia.com" class="">trabia.com</a> <<a href="http://trabia.com" class="">http://trabia.com</a>> (ask first)<br class=""><br class="">both offer 100mbit for less than 5 euros<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This is a CSV file that TDP is slowly tinkering with. While it's<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>focused<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">on BSD-providing VPSs, most offer more.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><a href="https://github.com/torbsd/torbsd.github.io/blob/master/docs/bsd-vps.md" class="">https://github.com/torbsd/torbsd.github.io/blob/master/docs/bsd-vps.md</a><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">g<br class=""><br class="">--<br class=""><br class="">34A6 0A1F F8EF B465 866F F0C5 5D92 1FD1 ECF6 1682<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I asked online.net about their cloud ssd vps service and tor and<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>have the following dialog going:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">"<br class="">Hello. I'm interested in running a Tor relay exit node on your cloud<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>SSD vps product. Is this allowed? I would be running a reduced reduced<br class="">exit policy. Thank you.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">****************************************<br class=""><br class="">Flavio Pastore 1/18/18 5:13 PM<br class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for your ticket.<br class="">Our platform is a IaaS one. So, if you're willing to set up legal<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>activities, you're more than welcome regardless of the service used. If<br class="">not, you will reported accordingly.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">I hope I have this point clear, but we remain here at your entire<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>disposal for any further information.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class=""><br class="">Flavio <br class="">Online / Scaleway<br class="">Looking for an amazing job? Join us NOW !<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>https://careers.scaleway.com/<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">****************************<br class=""><br class="">Fabian.santiago@gmail.com 1/18/18 5:40 PM<br class="">By legal services, do you mean a mechanism in order to respond to<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>abuse reports? if so, i have covered that need by the following:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">1.> i publish a tor readme html page on the server for anyone to<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>browse to learn about tor and what my server is doing. it also includes<br class="">links to the tor project's own pages with additional information. I<br class="">would also be published in the tor atlas showing my node's information<br class="">for all to see that i am a tor node. <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">2.> i publish contact information so that complaint concerns can be<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>addressed to me directly as needed.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">will this suffice in your opinion? could you also make a note on<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>your end that I would be running an exit relay so that you know, in<br class="">case you do wind up receiving complaints about my node's traffic? I<br class="">find (and have read) that with a reduced reduced exit policy the chance<br class="">for complaint generating traffic is greatly minimized anyway. thank<br class="">you.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">"<br class=""><br class="">so they seem to be kewl with it but in your opinions, what does he<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote>mean by "legal activities"? Thanks. <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">Fabian S.<br class=""><br class="">OpenPGP: 3C3FA072ACCB7AC5DB0F723455502B0EEB9070FC<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org<br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Uggh, monthly recurring Bitcoin payments sounds painful. Nah. <br class=""><br class="">Maybe not a good idea then with <a href="http://online.net" class="">online.net</a>. they seem to offer vps' in Paris and Amsterdam and I have no idea what their LE would do when handed my info. So forget it. <br class=""><br class="">Ok, any decently priced unmetered providers with servers in the US? I am in the US.<br class=""><br class="">I'll check out the csv someone mentioned as well. Thanks.<br class=""><br class="">They also just added this response:<br class=""><br class="">"<br class="">Flavio Pastore wrote: <br class=""><br class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thanks for providing us more information about what services you're going to use in your server.<br class=""><br class="">By the way, it is very difficult to give you an exhaustive reply in advance, there is not a full text explaining what can be considered as illegal and what legal instead.<br class=""><br class="">But we ensure to apply the EU law as general set of rules, and the French law as specific set of rules.<br class=""><br class="">Besides, it is impossible to give you all details about that unfortunately.<br class=""><br class="">Finally , regarding the exit policy, it depends on the abuse and our security team treats case by case according to the specific abuse committed. <br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">"<br class=""><br class="">Thanks again everyone. <br class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">Fabian S.<br class=""><br class="">OpenPGP: 3C3FA072ACCB7AC5DB0F723455502B0EEB9070FC<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>