tor and privacy

[David Bendit]

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On Jul 15, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Technomage-hawke wrote:

>
> the suggestion is this: have a lot of plug members setup tor exit  
> nodes to
> share in this capability (and speed up the tor based network a bit).
>
> what say the rest of you?

I used to run a Tor exit node. I'm glad I stopped. I was banned from  
editing on Wikipedia (took months to get resolved. I had to be  
unbanned by a server admin at Wikipedia headquarters) and commenting  
on Slashdot, and I was disallowed from using DNSTools. Any service  
that bans "open proxies" bans tor exit nodes, no matter what ports  
they allow to be tunneled through (IRC servers are especially  
vicious). Plus, you have the trouble of explaining strange activity  
to your ISP (I never had to, thankfully). Really, it's more trouble  
than it's worth.

On the other hand, I got a free, green shirt for it. So it's not all  
bad.

- -David
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