On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:25:08 -0500 Andrew Lewman andrew@torproject.org allegedly wrote:
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:17:59 -0700 Nicolas Bock nicolasbock@gmail.com wrote:
I was running a tor exit node until I came across this article:
http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-opera...
While I don't live in the UK, I live in the US, I believe that the situation here has eroded to a point where running an exit node requires the mentioned balls of steel, which I admittedly don't have.
Well, then submitting to chilling effects isn't going to make the situation better. People in the UK continue to run exit nodes, I believe there are now more of them since that blog post.
I live in the UK and host (currently) three exit nodes in the UK on VMs at two separate datacentres. I have been running exit nodes in this manner since (initially) June 2009 at one site and latterly since december 2009 (when I moved my first node to a higher bandwidth server). In that time I have had just one complaint (about possible email spam).
I do not run tor on my domestic ADSL line. But that is largely for performance reasons than any other.
I would encourage others in the UK (and elsewhere) to run exit nodes on VMs now. They can be ridiculously cheap. My most expensive node costs £12.00 pcm and the cheapest I purchased recently for less than £50.00 for a calendar year. In addition, it is relatively easy to rent a VM in a country other than the one in which you live. However, if anyone wants to help tor and is concerned about running a node themselves, then I suggest that they take up Moritz's offer to run a node for them at torsevers.net.
Mick
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