reconsidering default exit policy

Joel Franusic jfranusic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 19:39:17 UTC 2005


Why not include a list of possible abuses with the Tor documentation?
The list could be organized on a per port basis, detailing what
complaints you might receive if a specific port is left open in the
exit policy.

For example:
Port 80 (HTTP)   Administrators running routers with port 80 open have
received abuse reports regarding Google Groups.



On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:55:31 -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx
<jon at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:23:38AM -0500, Rod Begbie wrote:
> 
> :I allowed exiting on Port 80 until I read this list and saw that
> :folks were getting abuse reports due to Google Groups.  That's when I
> :stopped it.
> 
> What's the point of TOR if you limit or eliminate port 80?
> 
>



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