[tor-relays] Reminder: don't run transparent proxies at exits

Zack Weinberg zackw at cmu.edu
Sat Jan 10 02:35:38 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 9:18 PM, cacahuatl <cacahuatl at autistici.org> wrote:
> If you're caching exit traffic and a very naughty person uses your exit,
> you've potentially cached "evidence" (to be seized).

That logic applies equally to DNS; indeed, it is why the CMU Tor exit
*doesn't* run a DNS cache.

(It talks to CMU's DNS servers, which do cache, but for the entire network.)

(If you can't trust your network provider's DNS resolver, the tradeoff
may be different.)

zw


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