[tor-talk] Tor relay on home computer

[Öyvind Saether]

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> What about bridges?

There is no big public list of bridges. They would have to look very
closely at you and your internet connection to find out that you are
running a bridge and if they are doing that then you have bigger
problems anyway.

Running a bridge on your home computer is totally safe and a great way
to help out. You should really do this.

Regarding your "Tor relay" question, it is like Moritz said: You can
run a Tor relay for years and years without any hint of
trouble AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO EXIT. It is when you
allow people to _exit_ to the Internets the trouble starts because
people will send DMCA spam and other spam to your Internet Service
Provider because of your Tor exit node and this is where it gets very
risky. If you know what kind of moral values your ISP has then you can
likely guess how this will go down with them. Some view DMCA spam
e-mails as just that and others have a "6 strike system" where they
will just shut down your internets after 6 spam.

In short, just run a bridge and you'll do great or run a normal Tor
relay that does not allow exiting if your home connection is kind of
fast. Don't bother and just run a bridge if it is on ADSL or something
like that.
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