-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Paritesh Boyeyoko: > On Friday 01 Nov 2013 20:02:29 Gordon Morehouse wrote: > >> >> What if someone inside a totalitarian state is attempting to >> upload evidence of a massacre to a service which runs on port >> 80? > > Yeah, I did think of this but I thought I'd put it out there > anyway. Unfortunately, too many sites/services don't use SSL. > Well, it's a no-no.
That's changing, not fast enough, but the NSA did a great job of raising awareness (even if they *can* crack it)... >> I'd love to get the bandwidth back from the 16 year olds >> downloading movies and terrible porn over Tor, too, but this >> won't fly, and y'all are gonna get flamed into cinders in about >> 5... 4... 3... for the types of reasons I just mentioned above. > > So would I, hence my looking at this to try and knock such 16 year > olds off of the network. :) However, yourself and Lunar make good > points especially concerning the legal position over traffic > redirection and/or manipulation. Well, plus, there are ethical questions about managing the traffic itself, and the fact that if tampering is detected, you'll get a BadExit flag. It's mostly ethical questions, IMO. > So what's the answer? Education? Educating torrent users to not > use Tor isn't going to work - if they know enough to use Tor > (thanks Azureus, NOT) - then they're gonna use it, so that's pretty > much out. Education does help - I've crashed many a thread suggesting Tor for BitTorrent and explained why it's harmful. I mean, I guess I don't have any metrics to back me up, but a lot of the people seem to say "oh, jeez, well in that case maybe I won't." > Publication of sample exit policies? Would that encourage exit > node operators to run restricted exit policies, and save themselves > loads of bandwidth and DMCA headache? That's been done, but a link in the default torrc above those config areas would be *great*. Best, - -Gordon M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSdSGpAAoJED/jpRoe7/ujn9cH/0C6/pI3TVXthpzu1DfMyqi0 un3tPtt3ZAhGgzJHeZ8Z1fXf/ihUtK0R1c9KBEPDZ3xW11yoWsqRF3+yD8kYFx5h CjlTH5E5dqth0pg5OnVtauX9HYrI7ppmynp7b/gDSvs9UvhkM7cIeHgKu7OgUidE pjpNVymQXmCcYN9E+x1/9EM4Oy6X1bi29nH0oSJBaYyGWHwd7FfF21oB2sIFFVbE 6kxDJ74s1XUmHRj/viBOs6vCI3dWgr8kEvz99Tm59q2g/45T4O/Q8hB3ZXMECmAe Iy0RMT/CbcgMaIJLX4CuglM8cUgZI9IwvId26hNzI0Z8H00RufCB/2xmk/JU62g= =x4lg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
