[tor-talk] Tor exit node

Thu Sep 17 15:10:16 UTC 2015

 I'd like to ask you guys how I can set up a Tor exit node. I figure I want to help make a difference in the best way I can for internet freedom, but the guide on the Tor wiki isn't very helpful. If you can provide links or detailed explanation (just 're:' me). Funnily enough I know how to set up a Tor server, but not a Tor exit node.
Thanks for the assistance to anyone who helps me. I figure people in here might be more useful than 50 article writers on websites trying to over complicate the process to earn their paycheck.

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>   1. Re: victory at kilton library (Alison Macrina)
>   2. Re: victory at kilton library (Roger Dingledine)
>   3. Re: tor + twitter issues (isis)
>   4. Re: Tor Browser does not recommend the default window size
>      anymore? (Joe Btfsplk)
>   5. Re: Tor Browser does not recommend the default window size
>      anymore? (Dave Warren)
>   6. WAF on TOR exit node (Andrej Manduch)
>   7. Re: WAF on TOR exit node (Gareth Llewellyn)
>   8. Torrents real-time and dynamic blocklist (Aymeric Vitte)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:19:34 +0000
>From: Alison Macrina < macrina at riseup.net >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] victory at kilton library
>Message-ID: < 55F95E56.7050409 at riseup.net >
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>> i just want to share the news that all of the hard work that has gone
>> into the library freedom project paid off today at kilton library.
>> despite pressure from the us federal government, which pulled out every
>> card to sell fear that they had in their hat, the local community
>> refused to accept it and thought on a global level to support the
>> library's choice to offer a tor relay to the public.
>> 
>> this is truly a monumental moment. libraries in the usa have often been
>> the target of hostile actions that threaten the first amendment of the
>> us constitution and the privacy rights of people. through a long string
>> of legal battles, libraries have earned an extraordinary position that
>> provides them with the ability to offer services that could land other
>> people in significant legal battles which become both legally and
>> politically difficult to close down.
>> 
>> i'd just like to say thank you to everyone involved in the library
>> freedom project who came up with the idea and didn't run away from the
>> fight. this is an excellent beginning.
>> 
>> if you can, please send your support to the library freedom project.
>>  https://libraryfreedomproject.org/donate
>> 
>> this is a great victory for today.
>
>
>Thank you! I think I can speak for both mrphs and myself when I say that
>we are thrilled with the outcome. What we saw last night was an
>incredible display of community support for free speech and Tor, and an
>unequivocal rejection of unlawful government intrusion and FUD. The
>Lebanon Libraries staff and community did something historic; I've been
>an activist for a long time and I've never been a part of a direct
>action quite like that. This is what happens when communities come
>together to resist.
>
>Please keep an eye out for more news coverage. The local news in NH has
>already put something up with a few great quotes from community members
>present:  http://www.vnews.com/home/18620952-95/library-joins-privacy-network
>
>If you're on twitter, say hi to @leblibraries or @nhleblibraries -- the
>second one is library director Sean Fleming, and I know he'd be moved to
>hear from folks in the Tor community about what his library community
>did last night.
>
>Thanks all for your support. We just had the world's first Tor protest,
>and it was a wild success. Imagine all the library exit relays we're
>gonna get now. :)
>
>Alison (director of Library Freedom Project)
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:54:00 -0400
>From: Roger Dingledine < arma at mit.edu >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] victory at kilton library
>Message-ID: < 20150916215400.GH53224 at moria.seul.org >
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>On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:19:34PM +0000, Alison Macrina wrote:
>>  What we saw last night was an
>> incredible display of community support for free speech and Tor, and an
>> unequivocal rejection of unlawful government intrusion and FUD.
>
>Thanks for sticking with this Alison and others!
>
>And for those here who want to get up to speed, I think this audio
>clip is a great summary:
>http://www.npr.org/2015/09/16/440914105/n-h-public-library-reconsiders-support-for-anonymous-internet-network-tor
>
>--Roger
>
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:10:55 +0000
>From: isis < isis at torproject.org >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] tor + twitter issues
>Message-ID: < 20150916221055.GP5172 at patternsinthevoid.net >
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>Tempest transcribed 2.4K bytes:
>> twitter's security configuration seems to be at war with tor. had to do
>> multiple resets over past 24 hours, only to see a perpetual "lock" in
>> place recently. i filed a support ticket. here's twitter's response.
>
>Hey All,
>
>I was contacted by some nice folks at Twitter who have worked to resolve this
>issue.  The problems with Tor users being locked out of their Twittter
>accounts and asked for phone number *should* be fixed, but I wasn't given
>many details as to what the fix entails, so?
>
>Is anyone still having troubles which they believe to be caused by using Tor?
>
>-- 
> ?? isis agora lovecruft
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>Message: 4
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:24:14 -0500
>From: Joe Btfsplk < joebtfsplk at gmx.com >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser does not recommend the default
>window size anymore?
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>On 9/14/2015 2:56 AM, Georg Koppen wrote:
>> Qaz:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed that I don't get the `we recommend you leave your window size
>>> with the default`  prompt when I fullscreen my window. Has it been fixed
>>> or something?
>> The alpha version does not have it anymore and you should only see it
>> three times if you are using a stable one.
>>
>> Georg
>Why only 3 times?  Is the thinking, after 3 reminders, people will 
>either heed the warning, or not?
>What about newbies that haven't grasped the reason for not changing Tor 
>browser window size?
>
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>Message: 5
>Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:12:00 -0700
>From: Dave Warren < davew at hireahit.com >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser does not recommend the default
>window size anymore?
>Message-ID: < 55FA4BA0.6030502 at hireahit.com >
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>On 2015-09-16 16:24, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
>> Why only 3 times?  Is the thinking, after 3 reminders, people will 
>> either heed the warning, or not?
>> What about newbies that haven't grasped the reason for not changing 
>> Tor browser window size? 
>
>Will telling them 5 times help? If not 5, then 10? 15? More?
>
>You're not wrong, but at the same time, annoying experienced users who 
>understand (and don't care about) the consequences isn't necessarily 
>useful either.
>
>-- 
>Dave Warren
>http://www.hireahit.com/
>http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren
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>Message: 6
>Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 05:19:27 -0400
>From: Andrej Manduch < amanduch at gmail.com >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: [tor-talk] WAF on TOR exit node
>Message-ID: < 55FA859F.3080206 at gmail.com >
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>Hi All,
>
>Recently I had lot of problems with my ISP/VPS provider because my TOR
>exit node. I was thinking about setting up some basic WAF so tor exit
>node wont be marked by honeypots as hacker/badIP.
>Personally I don't care about IP but I'm not the one who will be living
>with that IP whole life. I got contract for that IP just for one year.
>So I understand why is ISP so emotional about it.
>
>My question is: What tor community thinks about setting up Web
>Application Firewall on tor exit node, and rejecting (therefore
>tampering with) some traffic.
>
>The second option for me is disable whole http/https but that's
>something I really don't want to do because I belive that most of
>legitimate traffic is from there.
>
>-- 
>Kind regards,
>b.
>
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>Message: 7
>Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 10:34:34 +0100
>From: Gareth Llewellyn < gareth at networksaremadeofstring.co.uk >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: Re: [tor-talk] WAF on TOR exit node
>Message-ID:
>< CAM8M=kjtoithFFUwM3MXZO_14XOSZr6os5750UtXoe+C9aatVw at mail.gmail.com >
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>If a nodes exit policy specifies that port 80 is allowed then port 80
>should be allowed without hindrance.
>
>On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Andrej Manduch < amanduch at gmail.com > wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Recently I had lot of problems with my ISP/VPS provider because my TOR
>> exit node. I was thinking about setting up some basic WAF so tor exit
>> node wont be marked by honeypots as hacker/badIP.
>> Personally I don't care about IP but I'm not the one who will be living
>> with that IP whole life. I got contract for that IP just for one year.
>> So I understand why is ISP so emotional about it.
>>
>> My question is: What tor community thinks about setting up Web
>> Application Firewall on tor exit node, and rejecting (therefore
>> tampering with) some traffic.
>>
>> The second option for me is disable whole http/https but that's
>> something I really don't want to do because I belive that most of
>> legitimate traffic is from there.
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>> b.
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>Message: 8
>Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:09:41 +0200
>From: Aymeric Vitte < vitteaymeric at gmail.com >
>To:  tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
>Subject: [tor-talk] Torrents real-time and dynamic blocklist
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>Is now available on  http://peersm.com/getblocklist .
>
>This might be of some interest for some people operating some exit nodes
>and receiving notices because some others unwisely use the Tor network
>for torrenting, the blocklist oscillates between 10/20K IPs please see
>at the end of the presentation below.
>
>There is an annual fee to access the blocklist in order to finance this
>work, make it evolve and finance our other privacy oriented projects.
>
>But people can also create their own blocklist free of charge using the
>findspiesonly option of torrent-live, as explained in "Why do we need
>you to get the dynamic blocklist?" section of the FAQs
>( http://torrent-live.org/?links )
>
>Presentation:
>
>"The blocklist comes from the study we made since one year "Monitoring
>and blocking the bittorrent monitoring spies" (abstract and summary
>here:  https://gist.github.com/Ayms/077b114a27450f773939 ), this does not
>apply to copyright matters only but all kind of monitoring.
>
>Global explainations are available in the FAQs:
>http://torrent-live.org/?links and more technical details how it works
>here:
>https://github.com/Ayms/torrent-live#how-is-the-dynamic-blocklist-createdmaintained
>
>
>The common belief is that blocklists do not work, which is true in
>general, this dynamic blocklist works, it has been tested since a few
>months with some people used to get DMCA notices at least once a month,
>so far they did not get any longer DMCA notices.
>
>It can not insure 100% that you will not encounter a spy but it does
>decrease quite a lot this risk, personnally we think it's enough to make
>sure that the spies will not detect you, but cannot prove it firmly for
>now, only empiric use will tell it.
>
>The only case that the blocklist can not defeat is the one of a spy
>behaving normally or quasi normally in a swarm, as shown in some
>research papers, this is possible but unlikely, unless you are not a
>"normal" person and some people are really targeting you or you are
>seeking for very sensitive information monitored by some authorities.
>
>The dynamic blocklist oscillates between 10 and 20 K IPs, which is not a
>lot, filtering the spies to reduce this number is just a matter of
>processing capabilities, that we will increase if we get some fundings,
>we think that the dangerous spies are no more than a few hundreds and
>certainly less
>than 3000."
>-- 
>Get the torrent dynamic blocklist:  http://peersm.com/getblocklist
>Check the 10 M passwords list:  http://peersm.com/findmyass
>Anti-spies and private torrents, dynamic blocklist:  http://torrent-live.org
>Peersm :  http://www.peersm.com
>torrent-live:  https://github.com/Ayms/torrent-live
>node-Tor :  https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor
>GitHub :  https://www.github.com/Ayms
>
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