On 13-11-01 01:48 PM, Paritesh Boyeyoko wrote:
On Friday 01 Nov 2013 05:37:14 I wrote: The paper http://planete.inrialpes.fr/papers/TorTraffic-NSS10.pdf shows 54.48% of the traffic passing through the sample exit nodes was BiTorrent traffic.
Isnt that about the same percentage on the non-Tor internet?
Would it be worth putting together selection of template Exit Policies which exit node operators can cut & paste into their torrc? Or (and this is more a dev question) have an "include" directive where separate policy files can be specified (and therefore substituted), something like this:
ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/mail.exit ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/rdp.exit ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/web.exit ExitPolicy include /etc/tor/chat.exit
Examples are great if they are kept up to date. Could they be put in the wiki with suitable comments?
Combine this with a default reject *:* policy and it *may* lead to a change of culture and squeeze BitTorrent out. It may even help reduce the number of DMCA notices that exit operators get.
It would help if most bittorrent trackers enforced sharing ratios of around 1:1 (since Tor clients cannot accept incoming connections, unless on a .onion HS). Also helpful if they switched to UDP-only for data which would exclude Tor (until Tor suppports UDP).
On the other hand, i had a reduced exit policy and still got DMCA complaints just for the .torrent file being downloaded via HTTP through my exit.