[tor-relays] Planning a relay

[Geoff Down]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014, at 12:10 AM, TT wrote:

> Busting down doors is pretty much spot on about the reason i am 
> unwilling to run the relay on my own IP address: i've read enough news 
> about overzealous law enforcement in my country (non-Tor related, but 
> still), and i'm certainly not going to face the public harassment and 
> general fuss of an unnecessary and very embarrassing seizure.
> 
 I don't know exactly how VPNs work, but it seems to me that if you run
 an exit relay at home and tunnel all connections through the VPN, the
 VPN provider (and LE when they take an interest) will have no way of
 distinguishing between your exit relay accessing illegal content via
 the VPN tunnel, and *you* accessing the illegal content via the VPN
 tunnel. Therefore you are at the same risk of raid and seizure (once
 the VPN provider tells LE where to find you) as if you used your own
 IP.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
GD

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