If your goal is to choose an exit specially to minimize risk of it being run by a malicious actor, it seems choosing exits run by orgs you trust would be better than choosing based on where someone is hosting a server.
But yes, you can choose exits by country. I'm not saying it's a good idea or that hard choosing exits in any fashion is good for the network. (It's not.) http://www.2byts.com/2012/03/09/how-to-configure-the-exit-country-on-tor-network/ http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/733/can-i-exit-from-a-specific-country-or-node -tom On Jun 18, 2014 1:41 AM, "JP Wulf" <[email protected]> wrote: > > So Griffin Boyce is canvasing for some input to improve Tor, specifially > for Journalists. > https://twitter.com/abditum/status/479052228138119168 > > 1. It is known that various actors are trying to compromise Tor comms by > establishing > own exit nodes. With enough nodes, they can break Tor (see slides). > > 2. Idea: Is it possible to allow the end user to determine the > geo-location (with various degrees of fine tuning from hemisphere, through > continental, to top country domain to regional? > (I have NFI about the inner workings of TOR protocol and new work on it) > > For example. Say a journalist in Russia is using Tor, s/he declares in > their tor client, that they only want to use exit nodes in South America > and Australia. Thus minimising the chance the nodes are owned. > > This geolocation could perhaps be used to validate the integrity of the > nodes (how I dont know, maybe by establishing TOR honeypots that can only > be compromised through traffic through a compromised (owned) exit node). > > Risk: > This is a rats nest, because if implemented incorrectly it may allow > hostile actors to direct exit nodes to those that are owned. > > Thanks for reading my fiction. Maybe its useful in the light of what > Griffin is asking about. > > > -- > JP Wulf > Problem Solution Engineering > http://nomeonastiq.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > >
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