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September 2015

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clarification on what Utah State University exit relays store ("360 gigs of log files")
by nusenu 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

Hi Jesse, I found your email address in exit relay descriptors run at USU [1]. There has been an interesting comment on a recent boingboing post [2] that implies that USU exit relays store significant amount of logs without going into much detail: > dweller_below August 5, 2015 > > A very similar thing happened to USU. We received a summons from > Homeland/ICE to produce 3 months of records (plus identifying > info) for an IP that was one of our TOR exit nodes. > > I eventually managed to contact the Special Agent in charge of the > investigation. He turned out to be a reasonable person. I > explained that the requested info was an extremely active TOR exit > node. I said that we had extracted and filtered the requested data, > it was 90 4 gig files (for a total of 360 gigs of log files) or > about 3.2 billion log entries. [...] If you can confirm that the comment is authentic I'd be interested what kind of tor related data you are logging at your exit relays and why. thanks, nusenu [1] https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/contact:C20BEC80 [2] http://boingboing.net/2015/08/04/what-happened-when-the-fbi-sub.html

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