[tor-relays] Legal status of operating Tor exit in UK?

Dave Warren davew at hireahit.com
Wed Sep 23 23:28:41 UTC 2015


On 2015-09-23 15:28, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
>
>> On 24 Sep 2015, at 08:19, Green Dream <greendream848 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:greendream848 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     "I'm still not convinced that ToR isn't just an incredibly clever
>>     US government scheme where the US government stealthily operate a
>>     majority of the ToR (exit and intermediate) nodes, leading
>>     themselves to be able to anonymously inspect / MITM traffic from
>>     any exit node
>>     they operate, as well as correlate flows between non exit nodes
>>     to be able to find the original source of a flow."
>>
>>
>> If the ISP really feels this way, a logical solution would be to 
>> allow exits from their network, thereby increasing the capacity of 
>> non-government nodes. The irony.
>
> Unless they think there's a significant chance *you're* a US 
> government agent.
>

In which case little would annoy the aforementioned gov't agent more 
than one or more ISPs setting up their own network of high capacity exit 
nodes.

-- 
Dave Warren
http://www.hireahit.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren

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