[tor-relays] Individual Operator Exit Probability Threshold

[Jonathan Proulx]

To the initial question for a honest operator who's open about their
ownership and enters proper family membership data I can't see how
more exit volume is a problem.  TOR needs to be resilient against
malicious operators who don't disclose, nto sure what the current
value of "global" is but I should hope it's well above 5%...


On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:49:11PM -0400, tor wrote:
:> I get about sixty (60) abuse notifications a day and on average eight (8) subpoenas a month.
:
:How do you handle the subpoenas?

That seems high ... currently I'm 0.5% of exits though (long ago) I
was over 1% but a smaller absolute number at the time.

in IDK 15 years I've gotten one request to "preserve evidence" which
expired with no furhter action and one call from law enforcement who
was simply disappoitned when he learned it was a TOR exit & knew there
was nothing I could have of use to him.

Currently I do see 1-3 standard abuse/dmca complaints per day which we
have canned response in our ticketing system to deal with and I can't
remeber any one askign for more after geting it:

"""
Hello,

The source address 128.52.128.105 is a Tor exit node, and is not the
origin point for the traffic in question.  See
http://tor-exit.csail.mit.edu (which is the host in your logs) for
details.  Any action taken on this node would simply result in the
problem traffic using a different exit.

For further information please read http://tor-exit.csail.mit.edu/ the
bottom of this page includes information on how to block all Tor exits
should you wish to do so (including links to get a list of all current
Tor exits).

Sincerely,
The Infrastructure Group
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
"""

(the content of the referenced link is from somewhere on the torproject
site...)

Now my institutional reputation probably helps a bit with people
believing that's the case and perhaps not excalating to more formal
legal demands, but I'd expect to be normal number of initial
notifications.

-Jon