[tor-relays] Running exit-node in Germany

[Samuel Walker]

An exit relay operator in Austria recently had their home raided by police after abuse from the exit node IP,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/10/tor_admin/

I recall reading somewhere else that the police pointed out that even if the abuse can from an IP address shared by a Tor exit node, they still needed to check whether the abuse did come from Tor, rather than another computer that was on the same internal networh (thus sharing the public IP address). So, it's worth bearing in mind if you will be sharing the same IP address with other computers in your home.

Samuel.


On 1 Aug 2013, at 15:25, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Matthias Redies <rediesmatthias at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Luckly I have a fiber connection and a unused RaspberryPi. So running an exit-node would be free for me. Can you describe the encounter with the police? Did you just go to your local police station oder did you call a special cybercriminality unit? 
> 
> What exactly was the 'hassle' when you ran an exit-node?
> 
> This is for Singapore, but may provide you with a data point.
> 
> I run a number of Tor nodes in Singapore.  The servers are hosted on IPs that are registered to me in APNIC whois.  
> 
> The Singapore Police has an active Cyber Crime division.  Singapore Law is based in large part on English Law.
> 
> I am not sure if the investigation is ongoing, so I am leaving out specifics.
> 
> I received, about 3 months ago, an email from a Police Officer.  It was addressed to my address in the whois, and seemed to be written assuming I was an ISP.  It cited a date and time range, an IP address, and asked which customer was using the IP address at that time.  This was in connection with "unathorised fund transfers".
> 
> I replied back explaining that the IP was in my control, and ran TOR.  I provided a link to the TOR website, and that I did not have any logs.
> 
> I got back a prompt response thanking me, and have heard nothing since.
> 
> So it is possible that, as law enforcement gets better clued in to Tor, they would be willing to let you go with dirty looks for making their life harder, but not call down the SWAT team.
> 
> -- 
> Sanjeev Gupta
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