Hello,
Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. wrote:
Good morning Spiros,
You are correct in that I won't maintain the exit flag without ports 80 and 443 open, *and* I lose my eligibility for a free t-shirt, *but* I am not likely to attract attention at my home either. =)
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First of all, thank you for running an Exit relay. Why don't you allow exit with reduced exit policy so that your exit node will be able to handle more traffic?
I mean, for sure if you allow more ports you will have more Tor traffic, thus increase your chances to get (more) abuse complaints, but I think running a relay from home is not bad! I am aware a lot of people say it's not desirable, not because you could actually get into trouble but just to avoid a possible mess / raid / headaches / having to waste time to explain. Such things don't happen so often, fortunately, more and more law enforcement people know what Tor is and how it works.
I see it no different than forgetting to set a Wi-Fi password at your home, or sharing it, or choosing a poor one that can be found with a dictionary attack with aircrack-ng -- nothing can happen to you if you are the victim of this. So with Tor, running Tor software configured as an Exit relay is perfectly legal in most countries that I am aware of.
And most of the abuse complaints are automated emails anyway that do not even require a reply, from people who setup tools in the wrong way to spam RIR's databases with automated notifications that nobody should care, because they still don't understand how the internet works. In the land of internet you rely only on your actions to make your systems and networks secure, not on what other people should not do to you because you think it's abusive -- it doesn't work this way, never had and never will.
So, I think you are fine if you run an Exit with the reduced exit policy. 99,99% worst case scenario is: ISP cutting you off because of too many abuse complaints. If it's a big ISP I doubt they will care.
Of course it's up to you. Anyway, thanks for running it, any way you choose to do, with any ports open, it still helps the network.