Banners injected in web pages at exit nodes TRHCourtney*

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Tue Jun 2 15:44:03 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:52:18PM +0400, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> Just stumbled upon a banner injected in html at tor exit node.
> Nodes in question:
> 
>   router TRHCourtney01 94.76.246.74 443 0 9030

Exciting. Peter and I just added these nodes to the badexit list. That
means clients should start learning that in the next several hours.

Thanks for pointing it out.

> Some more concerns. Page http://courtney.nullroute.net/ contains:
> 
>   WARNING: The TOR Exit Node must *not* be used for illegal means. 
>   Connection and session logs are kept and *will* be forwarded onto 
>   the police in the event of an abuse report

Oh. I was going to suggest mailing him/her to ask if the injection was a
mistake. (We've had plenty of people sign up as Tor relays and not realize
that their local traffic "protection" tools will affect their Tor traffic
too.) But this page makes it pretty clear that they meant to do it. Bleah.

--Roger



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