[tor-bugs] #6294 [Metrics Utilities]: Improve ExoneraTor UI, or write LEO landing page

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#6294: Improve ExoneraTor UI, or write LEO landing page
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 Reporter:  karsten            |          Owner:     
     Type:  task               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:     
Component:  Metrics Utilities  |        Version:     
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Comment(by wseltzer):

 A few edits to the current text, and a new opening paragraph:

 ExoneraTor: a website that tells you whether a given IP address was a Tor
 relay

 Just because you see an Internet connection from a particular IP address
 does not mean you know *who* originated the traffic. Tor anonymizes
 Internet traffic by
 "[https://www.torproject.org/about/overview#thesolution onion routing],"
 sending packets through a series of encrypted hops before they reach their
 destination. Therefore, if you see traffic from a Tor node, you may be
 seeing traffic that originated from someone using Tor, rather than from
 the node-operator itself. The Tor Project and Tor node operators have no
 records of the traffic that passes over the network, but we do maintain
 current and historical records of which IP addresses are part of the Tor
 network.

 ExoneraTor tells you whether there was a Tor relay running on a given IP
 address at a given time. ExoneraTor can further indicate whether this
 relay permitted exiting to a given server and/or TCP port. ExoneraTor
 learns these facts by parsing the public relay lists and relay descriptors
 that are collected from the Tor directory authorities and the exit lists
 collected by TorDNSEL. By inputting an IP address and time, you can
 determine whether that IP was then a part of the Tor network.

 Notice: Note that the information you are providing below may be visible
 to anyone who can read the network traffic between you and this web server
 or who has access to this web server. For greater confidentiality of the
 IP addresses and incident times, you should download the Java or Python
 version of ExoneraTor and run it on your local machine.

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