On Mon, Sep 5, 2016, at 11:24, Kenneth Freeman wrote:
On 09/04/2016 07:31 PM, Mirimir wrote:
On 09/04/2016 09:11 AM, Kenneth Freeman wrote:
Do embassies and consulates run Tor nodes? AFAIK no studies have been done on this, but diplomatic immunity and Tor would seem to be a match made in Heaven.
Well, they need uplinks, right? I doubt that diplomatic immunity forces ISPs to serve them. Private routing is possible, of course, but is probably too expensive for most.
Whatever their budgetary considerations, embassies and consulates afford diplomatic safe spaces for Tor nodes.
At best, they provide a *legal* safe space, but it would only take an embassy having their local internet access terminated once or twice before they'd re-consider, absent any agreements which block service providers from doing such. I'd be surprise if such exist, although, it's certainly possible.
Assuming we're talking exit nodes, anyway.