Virgil Griffith i@virgil.gr writes:
I have never harvested .onion addresses from a HSDir. All I've ever done is cache NXDOMAIN responses, which I've now stopped doing. I also stopped adding to the /sitemap.xml (which I was doing) because it made people upset.
From what you write, it sounds like you didn't harvest .onions from
HSDirs, you did cache NXDOMAIN responses, but stopped, and you stopped adding to /sitemap.xml, that is all good.
However, you did not make any clear statement that you are not doing something else that people may similarly object to, but just dont know about it yet, or don't realize how it is being used in a way that may not be ethically ok for the community.
You said "All I've ever done", which is using the past tense, but that doesn't tell me that you are not doing something now, or will do so in the future.
Can you make such a statement now? Are there other things you are doing with Tor that the general community does not know about and cannot make an ethical evaluation?