[tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being public?

[Tristan]

This is exactly why I use Tor.

I imagine a lot of people use Tor to bypass network restrictions, like
school/University firewalls or counties like China and Pakistan.

On Dec 7, 2016 9:11 AM, "heartsucker" <heartsucker at autistici.org> wrote:

> As one of the Tor users who connects to services where I have to use my
> real name (e.g., my banks), I think it's not helpful to make assumptions
> about everyone's use case. Part of why I use Tor is to keep my ISPs from
> snooping on what I'm doing, and it's possible some of these millions of
> facebook users are doing the same.
>
> -h
>
> On 12/07/2016 04:07 PM, Rana wrote:
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Syverson
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 4:34 PM
> > To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Is there a reason for all exit nodes being
> public?
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Rana wrote:
> >>> As of last April, FaceBook reported over a million users per month via
> Tor.
> >
> > I am sure that the 1 million FB users connect via Tor not because they
> want to hide their location but the want to hide WHO they are. Hence their
> authentication information is mostly false and they use Tor for personal
> anonymity, not for anonymous routing.
> >
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