[tor-relays] Qualities of a good relay (Sean Saito)

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...an excellent point

Robert

> From: swsnyder at snydernet.net
> Sent: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:09:48 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> I worry about those relays with a heroic uptime.  How is it that they
> haven't needed to reboot in, say, nine months? No security updates to the
> kernel or glibc in all that time?  Really?
> 
> In these days when governments, with their expertise and
> multi-billion-dollar budgets, get infiltrated I wonder how easy it would
> be get some monitoring malware onto machines that run Tor relays.  That
> seems a lot more likely to me than the scare stories about the NSA/GCHQ
> running a lot of nodes themselves.