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[Matthew McCabe]

Wow, that is a very cool idea.  This could even be turned into a 
non-profit organization...  We could take donations to support running 
Tor exit nodes which, in turn, supports everyone's ability to use the 
Internet without fear of censorship, harassment, and authoritarian (or 
up-and-coming authoritarian) governments.

What do you all think?

By the way, there was a Nova special last night on the NSA and their 
"minority report" like computer system in development:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/


Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:50 PM, slush <slush at slush.cz> wrote:
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>> Yes, Im using linode.com, plan "Linode 720". Tor runs without any problem
>> (but my bandwidth is only about 150kB/s; there are another network services
>> too).
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>
> Interesting. That is $40/month with 400 GB limit. I have a collocation
> for around 110 EUR per month for 100 Mbit/s best-effort with no limit
> on data transfer and yet without any problems with ISP (they said that
> it is not their issue what I am running on my server).
>
> So ... maybe ... there is an idea. I could offer to setup Tor nodes
> with this ISP with simple CPU/RAM/diskless/self updatable/no logs
> systems for 100 Mbit/s default policy exit nodes. If anybody would
> like to monthly contribute/donate money for collocation and this
> initial hardware. Or few people together.
>
> I just do not know what would ISP say if they would have multiple such
> nodes there. Maybe they would become less liberal.
>
>
> Mitar
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