So long as more nodes come online, and those nodes have proper family statements, particularly regarding physical/geopolitical location...
I don't really see any problem with any form of organization doing this. For profit or not. Nor any problem with any level of transparency. From open books and people to the typical privately held black box. Nor any need for silly "we don't sniff" declarations. That one especially makes me laugh, because users would be foolish to believe that there are not plenty of exit node operators that: a) do sniff, declaration or not b) are under orders to sniff c) are sniffed by the upstream doing so per a or b. and because users are supposed to know that if they're not using PKI or PSK complete with fingerprint checking, that they should indeed [!] expect to have their plaintext observed at some point, regardless of whether or not they use Tor. I agree in general that due to economies of scale and SLA/policy/contact setting with the provider, it's probably better to go for one year term upfront and somewhere between lots of small nodes or a few large ones. And yes, more transparency is more likely to successfully raise funds. Go forth and prosper, the market will figure out the merits. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
