[tor-relays] Tor relay setup

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Sun Mar 23 09:43:05 UTC 2014


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 02:56:36PM -0800, I wrote:
> You should at least change the ssh port immediately now that you have
>published the address.

No, this is bad advice.

First because Tor relays (and their addresses) are public anyway.

And second because having an ssh port exposed to the Internet will draw
enough scans that it had better be secure, regardless of whether running
a Tor relay nearby to it draws any more attention to it.

(Please don't spread fud about the risks of running relays. Especially
as there *are* risks, like any other Internet service.)

--Roger



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