Olaf Grimm:
An exit node at home is funny. Last year I've got visitors from law enforcement early in the morning. Now I have some new "friends" from the police department.
Be warned! They take a look on bad movies and assume you are the one...
Now I have my servers outside and at home a middle node only.
:)
Yes... in the 'old days' marketing departments thought that Tor exit IPs appearing in their webalizer or awstats was just some exotic visitors.
Then more savvy admins at large firms realized they could block Tor exit IPs... then later all public Tor IPs. The delusion that blocking all Tor traffic somehow mitigates not patching software or maintaining a sane secure infrastructure seems to carry a lot of weight.
I'd give a +1 to the standard that you don't run a public Tor IP from a residence... in one case several years ago, a Tor advocacy-geared presentation I gave meant that a user or two lost access to their online banking account. Oh, details, details.
OTOH, running a bridge from home should be a principle if you have the bandwidth and hardware. To run a bridge from home should be strongly encouraged for anyone capable of doing so. And it doesn't take a lot of effort to run a few more bridges with trusted friends and families.
Residential bridges can play a critical role in diversifying the Tor network, and can mitigate much of the censorship we're seeing today.
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