[tor-relays] Running an exit node from home

[s7r]

Hello,

Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T. wrote:
> Good morning Spiros,
> 
> You are correct in that I won't maintain the exit flag without ports 80 and 443 open, *and* I lose my eligibility for a free t-shirt, *but* I am not likely to attract attention at my home either.  =)
> 
> Make your day great,
> Isaac Grover, Senior I.T. Consultant
> Aileron I.T. - "Practical & Proactive I.T. Solutions"
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First of all, thank you for running an Exit relay. Why don't you allow
exit with reduced exit policy so that your exit node will be able to
handle more traffic?

I mean, for sure if you allow more ports you will have more Tor traffic,
thus increase your chances to get (more) abuse complaints, but I think
running a relay from home is not bad! I am aware a lot of people say
it's not desirable, not because you could actually get into trouble but
just to avoid a possible mess / raid / headaches / having to waste time
to explain. Such things don't happen so often, fortunately, more and
more law enforcement people know what Tor is and how it works.

I see it no different than forgetting to set a Wi-Fi password at your
home, or sharing it, or choosing a poor one that can be found with a
dictionary attack with aircrack-ng -- nothing can happen to you if you
are the victim of this. So with Tor, running Tor software configured as
an Exit relay is perfectly legal in most countries that I am aware of.

And most of the abuse complaints are automated emails anyway that do not
even require a reply, from people who setup tools in the wrong way to
spam RIR's databases with automated notifications that nobody should
care, because they still don't understand how the internet works. In the
land of internet you rely only on your actions to make your systems and
networks secure, not on what other people should not do to you because
you think it's abusive -- it doesn't work this way, never had and never
will.

So, I think you are fine if you run an Exit with the reduced exit
policy. 99,99% worst case scenario is: ISP cutting you off because of
too many abuse complaints. If it's a big ISP I doubt they will care.

Of course it's up to you. Anyway, thanks for running it, any way you
choose to do, with any ports open, it still helps the network.

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