[tor-relays] Reasons to avoid being a guard?

Ivan Markin twim at riseup.net
Fri Sep 16 15:19:00 UTC 2016


jensm1:
> I am curious about possible reasons, why one wouldn't want to become
> guard. Are there any risks or disadvantages that come with the guard flag?

Probably because having clients connecting directly to this relay is not
OK. E.g. some hostile ISP/upstream so one may decide not to endanger
users by running a Guard relay there.
Just a guess.

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Ivan Markin


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