[tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 67, Issue 2

Flipchan flipchan at riseup.net
Mon Aug 1 22:40:48 UTC 2016


What isp do u have in Sweden , i have had simular isp problems where i have got a letter in the mail (a real irl letter in paper^^).

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>  1. Re: Got a visit from the police this morning.. (Marco A. Calamari)
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>Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:45:32 +0200
>From: "Marco A. Calamari" <marcoc_maillist at marcoc.it>
>To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Got a visit from the police this morning..
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>On Sun, 2016-07-31 at 14:54 +0100, Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
>> I think this issue has been discussed here before. 
>> 
>> The general opinion on the list is that it's not a good idea to
>> run an exit at home. It's probably not worth the hassle.
>
>For the peace of the mind and of the home sure.
>
>OTOH if all put exit nodes on external providers,
> the vulnerability of the Tor network raise a lot,
> hoping that no one run it on VM without knowing/caring
> of this ....
>
>JM2C
>
>> On 31 July 2016 at 14:13, Stig Atle Steffensen <stigatle at cryptol
>> ab.net> wrote:
>> > I never thought I would be one of those operators who had to
>> > deal with the police or anything like that.
>> > I've done all I can to set things up so that it's easy to see
>> > that I run a exit node.
>> > 
>> > I have a disclaimer on my website :
>> > https://stigatle.no/index.php/tor-exit-node/
>> > 
>> > and if you go to the ip of the node, you'll see the same info:
>> > https://185.97.32.18/
>> > 
>> > I run this node - which is no secret:
>> > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/04250C3835019B26AA6764E8
>> > 5D836088BE441088
>> > 
>> > So, back to earlier this morning.
>> > Suddenly got a hard knock on my door, I was surprised because
>> > we never get visitors.
>> > I saw it was the police (2 officers), and they asked if we
>> > could talk in private, because
>> > they heard my kids (2 and 4) and my wife upstairs, I said yes,
>> > no problem, let them in.
>> > 
>> > They would not let me know what it was about at first, they
>> > asked a lot about what I did yesterday,
>> > easy for me to answer since I was out climbing mountains all
>> > day long.
>> > Then asked a lot about who has access to my connection at
>> > home, It's just me, my wife, no one else.
>> > 
>> > Then I start to ask a bit, and I thought about the exit node I
>> > run, I quickly confirmed
>> > that it was the exit node (which is in sweden and not in
>> > Norway where I live) that was the reason why they where at my
>> > house.
>> > All though - 2 second check would confirm to them that the
>> > server is not at my house, and the impression they gave me
>> > until I
>> > showed the Exit node was that they thought it was sent from my
>> > house.
>> > 
>> > I have blocked the email ports on the exit node, but the issue
>> > was that a email had been sent through hotmail (web),
>> > threatening Angela Merkel, that's why they where at my house
>> > this morning.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I got the chance to explain everything as best I could,
>> > explained how it all worked, and why
>> > I run a exit node, and I feel they got all the answers they
>> > needed. They then left - and for now that was that.
>> > 
>> > I would be put on some kind of list, but that list would also
>> > explain that I operate a tor exit node.
>> > I'm happy with that, and hopefully this will be all that
>> > there's to it.
>> > 
>> > I might have to do some more explaining if I travel to
>> > sweden\germany, but that's fine with me.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Anyone else here that has this happen to you recently as
>> > well?..
>> > 
>> > 
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