How to run an exit node and not getting raided by police?

[Ringo Kamens]

Police will always harass those that act contrary to the state, such as tor
nodes.

Running exit node on computer that is physically located at some ISP's
server farm?

Seems like a decent idea.

PTR records (reverse dns)? Ip that translates to something like
proxy.domain.com or tor-proxy.domain.com? Are the cops smart enough? Do

yes, they will find you


Running a exit node on computer owned by some "civilrights group"?
If it's a legitimate one, good idea.


Encryption? Is it good or bad if cops take your servers? If you give
your keys to cops they can check that there ain't no cp. If your hard
drive is not encrypted police can check it easily. What about privacy?
Police tends to take all the computers and not just the one(s) running tor

It really depends on the country and what you believe about civil
disobedience.

Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Jan 26, 2008 9:31 PM, maillist <maillist at piirakka.com> wrote:

> As far as I know tor operators have been raided in Germany and Finland
> by ignorant cops who does not know anything about proxies or that one ip
> does not mean "one person" (ever heard of NAT, proxying or routing for
> example). How about other countries?
>
> How to avoid that nasty raid (at you home) and that oh so sweet paranoid
> feeling after that? Any ideas?
>
> How about following (just my two cents):
>
> Running exit node on computer that is physically located at some ISP's
> server farm?
>
> Renting a server from a different country, maybe a whole different
> continent and running exit node there? If you live in Europe and your
> country belongs to EU then maybe outside of EU? What would be a "good"
> country? How about service providers? - Maybe a good idea?
>
> PTR records (reverse dns)? Ip that translates to something like
> proxy.domain.com or tor-proxy.domain.com? Are the cops smart enough? Do
> they care? (I don't personally think that they care or understand.)
>
> Running exit node at local library's poorly secured computer? - That
> ain't nice and it's illegal - no.
>
> Running a exit node on computer owned by some "civilrights group"?
>
> Encryption? Is it good or bad if cops take your servers? If you give
> your keys to cops they can check that there ain't no cp. If your hard
> drive is not encrypted police can check it easily. What about privacy?
> Police tends to take all the computers and not just the one(s) running
> tor.
>
> What about encrypted container in encrypted fs's slack space for your
> private data? Then one can hand the outer volumes keys to police without
> any worries.
>
> And for my poor english.. Hope you all understand what I write =).
>
> Good day to you all!
>
> M
>
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