Searching for "good" ISPs

[Michael Gomboc]

Is it a good idea if one company hosts a lot of tor nodes? I don't think so.

If 100 persons run a tor node hosted and monitored by https://coldbot.com/ I
don't think that would be great for the tor network!

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards,
Michael

2010/2/20 <zzzjethro666 at email2me.net>

>  I would like to see Tor stay 3 hops for the purpose intended. As time
> passes, the developers will make it faster.
> Do nothing that will compromise anonymity.
> Anonymity is on a precipice and needs to be kept from being pushed or
> dragged over. Something big is going to happen and much is already happening
> in attempts to interfere with anonymity (Tor), and particularly if something
> does happen and there is no community available (Tor), to communicate
> anonymously with, the populace will be in deep stuff.
>
> I personally don't trust anyone who wishes Tor to be dropped to two (2)
> hops. If one wishes faster surfing, then use the available world wide
> Spider's Web.
>
> Wish I knew more so I could be a server for Tor but apparently there is no
> one in my part of the world using Tor, thus, no one to talk to or help me
> learn more, faster and with better understanding.
>
> Because I don't know very much, I cannot tweak Tor as so many do. Thus, I
> have almost no problems with it as is but don't know how to check just to
> make sure. I keep reading but it's way beyond me.
>
> Cheers, regards and salutations
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: wuiv yccwg <wuivyccwg at googlemail.com>
> To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> Sent: Sat, Feb 20, 2010 7:22 am
> Subject: Re: Searching for "good" ISPs
>
>  Hi All,
>
>
>  Sorry for this shameless plug, but it seems to be very relevant to
>
> the topic. As someone said before this is Capitalism and if there is
>
> demand there will be supply.
>
>
>   I am actually working for a startup company Coldbot (UK),
> https://coldbot.com/ and we are running a beta test of hosted Tor
>
> service (still very much in development stage, though). Feel free to
>
> have a look. The idea is to to give customers an option to run Tor
>
> servers without getting too deep into technical details and without
>
> worrying how 'Tor friendly' their ISP is.
>
>
>   The plans are to have Tor, VPN and some kind of proxy server
>
> services which customers could pick and match in any combination they
>
> want.
>
>
>   As one of the options the customers could VPN into coldbot network
>
> and use it as the EntryNode their Tor server running on Coldbot
>
> network. Which would be almost the same as having so much discussed 2
>
> hop Tor routing. Quite a few other combinations are possible as well,
>
> including simply running a Tor server either as relay or exit.
>
>
>   Basically, I am after some feedback and maybe a wish list or
>
> suggestions. What Tor community would like to see in such kind of
>
> service provider?
>
>
>  Thank You.
>
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Michael Gomboc
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