[tor-relays] Info from my ISP about investigation of tor exits

[Amadeus Ramazotti]

you did the right thing: shutting down the exits as soon as any potential pressure comes up! Especially if someone mentiones 'police' its time to retreat and shut them all down.

> On 3 Jan 2021, at 4:07 PM, s7r <s7r at sky-ip.org> wrote:
> 
> Olaf Grimm wrote:
>> Here is the original of mail (in copy) from my provider
>> Mail copy:
>> "Hello,
>> Unfortunately your traffic type is full of unwanted events not
>> compatible with our company ethic.
>> Since the first date of activity we've received many abuse reports
>> regarding bruteforce, layer7 attacks, hacking and many others.
>> Currently there is a police investigation regarding one of the 2 servers
>> related to hacking activity against an european country security. The
>> access and content is in interpol custody and we have a restriction on
>> reactivation.
>> Kind regards,
>> George Oprea
>> 24/7 Technical Support
>> Zetservers.com /Romania"
>> -->
>> My answer:
>> Thank you for your information.
>> Good luck. I change my other servers to less trouble.  (Change Exits to
>> Relay)
>> Olaf
> 
> Is there anyone left in the interpol that doesn't know what Tor is and how it works? Seriously, it's year 2021.
> 
> This Technical support person appears to have no clue that the traffic is only blindly forwarded, there's nothing on the server itself that generates the "abusive traffic". Nothing illegal can be found on them (if it's just Tor installed and configured as an exit relay).
> 
> To be honest, I don't get these hosting providers that are so scared of brute force and layer 7 attacks. These small hosting companies behave like back in the 2000's when everything was so scary, when an IP address usually meant one person or one physical address to bust the door.
> 
> Rather than changing from Exits to middles, try to explain to this small hosting company what Tor is and how it works. There are plenty of Tor exits in Romania, because it has very good internet, show them some AS number examples from the same country so they will grow some courage that they are not the only ones. Also tell them that there are many thousands of servers worldwide, most of them within the European Union which RO is part of. And leave the Exits to Exits ;)
> 
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