[tor-talk] Legal or not on monitoring traffic at a Tor exit?

[Xinwen Fu]

I'm just asking the legal liability of running Tor exits and making it
clear. I don't bother with modifying somebody's traffic.

Basically, you are saying once we run exits, the computers are not our own
computers any more:

Tor exit operators == ISP, from the perspective of laws.

What if somebody attacks my computer running a Tor exit via Tor? I have to
call police since I cannot check the content of the attack traffic?

Xinwen Fu

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Xinwen Fu <xinwenfu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm a bit curious about the legal issue on monitoring traffic at a Tor
> exit?
> > Is monitoring Tor traffic at an exit legal? Since the traffic passes "my"
> > computer, seems of course I can monitor it or even change it. When people
> > set up a Tor exit, is there any policy from Tor governing the behavior of
> > the operators? Is there any legal liability?
>
> This is in the FAQ.
>
> https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html
>
> Don't confuse capability with legality.  You should expect the same
> laws which make it unlawful for your ISP to do these things make it
> unlawful for exit operators.
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