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1. Re: Got a visit from the police this morning.. (Marco A. Calamari)
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:45:32 +0200
From: "Marco A. Calamari" <marcoc_maillist@marcoc.it>
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re:
[tor-relays] Got a visit from the police this morning..
Message-ID: <1470044732.4836.6.camel@marcoc.it>
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On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 14:54 +0100, Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
I think this issue has been discussed here before.
The general opinion on the list is that it's not a good idea to
run an exit at home. It's probably not worth the hassle.
For the peace of the mind and of the home sure.
OTOH if all put exit nodes on external providers,
the vulnerability of the Tor network raise a lot,
hoping that no one run it on VM without knowing/caring
of this ....
JM2C
On 31 July 2016 at 14:13,
Stig Atle Steffensen <stigatle@cryptol
ab.net> wrote:
I never thought I would be one of those operators who had to
deal with the police or anything like that.
I've done all I can to set things up so that it's easy to see
that I run a exit node.
I have a disclaimer on my website :
https://stigatle.no/index.php/tor-exit-node/
and if you go to the ip of the node, you'll see the same info:
https://185.97.32.18/
I run this node - which is no secret:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/04250C3835019B26AA6764E8
5D836088BE441088
So, back to earlier this morning.
Suddenly got a hard knock on my door, I was surprised because
we never get visitors.
I saw it was the police (2 officers), and they asked if we
could talk in private, because
they heard my kids (2 and 4) and my wife upstairs, I said yes,
no problem, let them in.
They would not let me know what it was about at first, they
asked a lot about what I did yesterday,
easy for me to answer since I was out climbing mountains all
day long.
Then asked a lot about who has access to my connection at
home, It's just me, my wife, no one else.
Then I start to ask a bit, and I thought about the exit node I
run, I quickly confirmed
that it was the exit node (which is in sweden and not in
Norway where I live) that was the reason why they where at my
house.
All though - 2 second check would confirm to them that the
server is not at my house, and the impression they gave me
until I
showed the Exit node was that they thought it was sent from my
house.
I have blocked the email ports on the exit node, but the issue
was that a email had been sent through hotmail (web),
threatening Angela Merkel, that's why they where at my house
this morning.
I got the chance to explain everything as best I could,
explained how it all worked, and why
I run a exit node, and I feel they got all the answers they
needed. They then left - and for now that was that.
I would be put on some kind of list, but that list would also
explain that I operate a tor exit node.
I'm happy with that, and hopefully this will be all that
there's to it.
I might have to do some more explaining if I travel to
sweden\germany, but that's fine with me.
Anyone else here that has this happen to you recently as
well?..
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