Publishing node IPs

[Philip Cheney]

I'm not a lawyer, but I'd think that a published list of servers could 
be quite helpful in a legal defense, if it ever came to that for 
anyone.


On Apr 17, 2005, at 7:28 PM, alexyz at uol.com.br wrote:

>> Well, how else will Tor clients learn about how to contact Tor 
>> servers?
>
> I understand the need to keep a list in a central server for initial 
> connections. But why make this
> list public by publishing the IPs in a webpage?
>
> Isn´t it ambiguous that an anonymous network is identifying itself? By 
> making the node IPs
> public, there is an implicit message saying "hey everyone afraid of 
> me, here is how to block
> me".
>
> Granted there are other ways to obtain that information. But 
> considering that the likely attackers
> of this network include governments, I wouldn´t make it easier for 
> them.
>
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