On 13. Jan 2019, at 22:54, grarpamp grarpamp@gmail.com wrote:
communicating with OVH regarding relays without contactinfo
Is it *really* a good idea to poke OVH over this? in their ToS I feel this can backfire in a bad way is easier to ban all this "Tor" entirely?
Though there can be some context, in general harassing and busywork for ISP is indeed not good. Especially when Tor has recourse and discipline of simply dropping the nodes from consensus with log referral. That's the better way, nodes will get clue eventually.
Another bettwer way is creating anti-Sybil web of trusts and node selection meta metrics that operators and users can contribute to and choose among. Which is still an open project ripe and waiting since *years* to be done by whoever wants to explore it.
I really need an ELI5 why this is a good idea.
OVH is a European company, we have privacy laws here. When asking if you can get the personal information for this servers you only will get a more or less friendly FuckYou. And they have a CW fraction of 15%, if we nag them enough they may change their TOS and start kicking all relays. This will be an even bigger nightmare than DigitalOcean.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
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