[tor-relays] Feedback wanted: letter to my university's library

[Jonathan Proulx]

Hi AJ,

not sure if anyone's brought this up, but you may want to look at:

https://libraryfreedomproject.org/

"
Library Freedom Project is a partnership among librarians,
technologists, attorneys, and privacy advocates which aims to address
the problems of surveillance by making real the promise of
intellectual freedom in libraries. By teaching librarians about
surveillance threats, privacy rights and responsibilities, and digital
tools to stop surveillance, we hope to create a privacy-centric
paradigm shift in libraries and the communities they serve."

In practice as I understand it this in large part involves Libraries
running Tor exits to facilitate their privacy and education goals.

-Jon

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:51:42AM -0400, teor wrote:
:On 2 Oct 2017, at 01:18, AJ Jordan <alex at strugee.net> wrote:
:
:>> find out what the rules around Internet usage
:>> are, and just set one up.
:> 
:> The problem is that logistically I can't without help,
:> unfortunately. I don't have a spare machine to run it on and more
:> importantly, I don't have access to a good wired connection. The only
:> Ethernet jack I know of is in my dorm room and I can't imagine it's
:> very good compared to a datacenter connection. So there's two things
:> I'd need from IT.
:
:You might be surprised.
:
:When I was at university, the Ethernet in my room was one hop from
:the campus fibre mesh network, so it was pretty good.
:(Of course, it was in Australia, so it would never have sent much tor
:traffic.)
:
:*If* it falls within your dorm's acceptable use policies, setting up a
:relay with a low RelayBandwidthRate would be a good way to see
:how well tor works on campus.
:
:But you need to make a judgement call, because having a dorm relay
:shut down might affect the library's willingness to run one.
:
:Tim
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