[tor-relays] Experience with obfuscated bridge on Raspberry Pi Raspian

[Kostas Jakeliunas]

Thanks for sharing your experience!

> After the week I decided to shut the bridge down because I heard from
people being contacted by the police even though only running a non-exit
relay.

Do you remember where you did hear this? Was it in writing, are you by
chance maybe able to link to it? It would be interesting to know more.

All non-bridge relays (exit or non-exit) can be enumerated by anyone
(that's by design); this is not the case with bridges. However I suppose
the extent to which any potential efforts to do just that may be happening
does very much depend on the jurisdiction where that bridge is being run;
China's internet censorship / 'firewall' thing seems to have been trying to
enumerate bridges for a while now. [1] In any case, as far as I'm
concerned, it would be *really* interesting to hear of any incidents
between the police and non-exit relay operators.

[1]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/knock-knock-knockin-bridges-doors


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:00 AM, z0rc <damian.goeldi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As lately there were many discussions on getting Tor from the experimental
> repository running on Raspian, I thought I would share my experiences here.
>
> First, I tried to install Tor following [1] and [2] and ran into the same
> compatibility issues as most of you. But then I just downloaded the
> soft-float version of Raspian "wheezy" from [3]. And I could install Tor
> and obsproxy from the experimental repository without any issues (i.e.
> without any compiling or complex configurations).
>
> I ran the obfuscated bridge for a week and it relayed a few 100 MB without
> any problems. The bridge is connected to a standard home cable connection
> in Switzerland (router runs pfSense). Of course the load was not too high
> due to only running an obfuscated bridge.
>
> After the week I decided to shut the bridge down because I heard from
> people being contacted by the police even though only running a non-exit
> relay. As I share a flat with some friends, I absolutely cannot afford
> being raided or similar. If anyone can give me some advice on running
> non-exit relays at home in Switzerland, I might consider running the bridge
> again.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Damian
>
>
> [1] https://www.torproject.org/**projects/obfsproxy-debian-**
> instructions.html.en#**instructions<https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions.html.en#instructions>
> [2] https://www.torproject.org/**docs/debian.html.en#**development<https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#development>
> [3] http://www.raspberrypi.org/**downloads<http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads>
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