The hosting staff in every hosting company has physical access to the servers (even dedicated) and if you have physical access to a server think about it as compromised.
I dont really see the difference between shared hosting and my other bare metal servers. As a CCNP I can compromise them both without much hassle with physical access to them. It´s not: Shared hosting = sharing my private keys to the world. Markus 2016-05-25 21:02 GMT+02:00 Nils Vogels <[email protected]>: > So just out of curiosity: if a lot of relays run on hardware of a single > hosting company, that hosting company has access to many secret keys, which > might be an interesting attack vector for an adversary. > > Given that these nodes have a different administrator, MyFamily won't be > set. > > Does the relay selection algo take this into account in any way? > > Greetings! > > Op 25 mei 2016 7:45 p.m. schreef "Markus Koch" <[email protected]>: >> >> My experience is: This is the best hosting companyI ever had and I am >> doing this for over 20 years. I will not run an exit node and I am >> sure I will be fine.Btw, there are already alot of hight traffic non >> exit nodes running on feral. >> >> Markus >> >> PS: I am not working for feral and I am not a family member or any >> other connection :) >> >> >> >> 2016-05-25 12:55 GMT+02:00 pa011 <[email protected]>: >> > Hi Markus, >> > >> > on your hint I was just checking feralhosting.com. They are quoting: >> > >> > "We do not allow Tor exit nodes to be run on our servers. They're open >> > invitations for trouble, and while Tor serves a useful purpose our >> > network is not the place for it. >> > Tor relays are fine provided they strictly only act as an intermediary. >> > >> > We will make an exception to this rule if you bring your own RIPE IPs >> > and handle abuse directly while taking full responsibility. " >> > >> > Is this your experience as well? >> > >> > Paul >> > >> > >> > Am 25.05.2016 um 10:16 schrieb Markus Koch: >> >> Linux, would like to upgrade my accounts at feralhosting.com with tor >> >> nodes. It must be possible because there are a lot of TOR nodes on >> >> feral. No clue what kind of linux they are using but you are right, I >> >> needed root for my other 6 TOR servers and I am just wondering if >> >> there is a way around it, if not I just ask them to install it for me >> >> :) >> >> >> >> Markus >> >> >> >> >> >> 2016-05-25 10:10 GMT+02:00 Petrusko <[email protected]>: >> >>> Like a portable version so ? >> >>> >> >>> Windows, Linux, which operating system are you using ? >> >>> >> >>> On Linux world, I'm usually using Debian and as I know you will need a >> >>> root access to the server. >> >>> It will create a debian-tor group, write into the system... >> >>> >> >>> Or if your user is in the "sudo" group, it can be ok. >> >>> >> >>> On windows, I'm not sure if there's a portable version of Tor... >> >>> portable = no need to install >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Le 25/05/2016 10:03, Markus Koch a écrit : >> >>>> possible or do I have to ask my hosting company for the install on a >> >>>> shared server? >> >>>> >> >>>> Markus >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> tor-relays mailing list >> >>>> [email protected] >> >>>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Petrusko >> >>> PubKey EBE23AE5 >> >>> C0BF 2184 4A77 4A18 90E9 F72C B3CA E665 EBE2 3AE5 >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> tor-relays mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> tor-relays mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > tor-relays mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-relays mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
