-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 [Sorry about that - that message was supposed to be *signed*, not encrypted.] On 08/09/2015 12:52 PM, Kurt Besig wrote:
Without going into any detail at this point I'm wondering if others, running a simple middle relay, have encountered any governmental harassment as a direct result of running a relay. The blocking of state agencies e.g, CA.SDI.gov, CA.DMV.gov?
Are you running a relay on your home network connection? That is discouraged for a whole bunch of reasons, one of which is that several "this IP is a source of spam" blacklists indiscriminately list _all_ Tor relays, whether or not they are exit nodes. This in turn causes random websites to block non-Tor access from the same address. California's government services' IT department is probably subscribing to one of those blacklists, and that's probably out of ignorance rather than malice (the blacklists in question bill themselves as "more comprehensive" than others). zw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVx4eNAAoJEJH8wytnaapkBmwQAJWN7NvxaaFGfeweVq3211zY +r28jqBodkUFCBNK2kVICC82CEVTdocgkLFuksNy1JXPPbpDG3QH/TZGQ6nd1oDf 8dlPnhltjAHbMfsK8ryH+tlqHZ/G8MsQhH9uZ2EYw0BoDzfEhzYSJf2QM3qq8+e8 3kl9tOa3smDD1KENkn7kEPYlz6RZAuxKFhYieabrJXXV7FP/miMsQroZ8+Vws8JX s80uzRyrnMSUdRRSCWLtW9HADA8xNV4eSFaQ1WzlygWkp010tvXpd3hpaJYxsS0w uLqOl0SIJYLEa/9nc63iO8huI1kYS0BndeqF4+cf077bKrSKQ1waNkyHlygsfVmV BCHLfid1UPknLdkF7WFDBoL9puzvJN+m8nl7x93vXELM5WSPSzGt2MWy/Gnh/YGT rHwx9QSWKJH54xVLaLjsruICsL+eOQ//M1SWdzcWze4hdmtRQAN3SjOPLA2eH0TX gv17YkkTJejh6rh3tIf79Dhn/3igyOfID4pa1cQWWL5JwS6xIbZGYNFAwEu14Ill oZXXNpND48M4X9ISSDDM7ab+8oWf5H1S3yi92QCPxlksZqG6lCUBoGzDImjF+q0G RDecVt2GZiykOWPttdfZYPdCaNWlPQB+gcuCV8XfBq0i34zHUHzHaeaZrhQeEeXO 0QjewKTaKB511efCSia0 =EScV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----