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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > 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. > > *********************************************************************** > > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > > -- Michael Gomboc www.viajando.at pgp-id: 0x5D41FDF8
