I've spent the week talking to my contacts at US universities, to get them to spin up fast exits. Currently the fast exits in North American universities are:
- University of Waterloo (Ian Goldberg) - Boston University (Leo Reyzin)
We're now on track to add: - UPenn (Matt Blaze) - UMichigan (Alex Halderman) - CMU (Nicolas Christin) - Georgia Tech (Dave Dagon)
and I have professors from George Mason, Illinois, UNM, UMN, UConn, UW, and others looking into it.
Wendy and I are talking to some lawyers to try to write up a short (several paragraph) document targeted toward the university's general counsel, for preemptive use by the computer science professors who plan to run the Tor exit.
What else should go in a "so you want to run a big exit" info kit?
- Pointers to the legal-faq (and dmca template) and abuse-faq.
- Pointers to Mike's blog entry: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment and my old Tor-at-universities wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorGuideUniversities
- Is there some document suggesting how to SWIP your address, and explaining the importance of having your abuse mails go to someplace other than your general university abuse team? It's touched on in several places but we should make it even clearer.
- What are the good answers now to "what hardware should I use, and how should I configure it?" I've been telling people they'll be happiest with Debian, and that something 64-bit and/or with AESNI support will be best.
- We should set up a mailing list for university relay operators to share experiences and feel solidarity. I'll also encourage them to sign up here. We might also post a list of university Tor exits somewhere obvious, so new ones can gain more confidence in the idea.
What other resources exist already that would be especially useful for new fast exits? What resources don't exist but should?
--Roger