My vision for the tor project (toropia, if you will) is that running a relay be
normal, i.e. part of the ritual of children leaving home for college would be
to make sure their parents know how to reboot the tor relay in the basement
when the power goes out. But it would be a big plunge for an amateur to set up
an exit relay. So when Conrad Rockenhaus offered SWIPEd freeBSD installed
relays, it seemed like a chance to get my feet wet. I have no freeBSD
experience, but the new torproject directions turned out fine. I'm trusting
that Conrad's install will be fine while I learn about hardened freeBSD and get
plugged in about security updates. So Conrad gets the grief, and I just run
the relay. Maybe I'm not a "real" relay operator for this one, but I think
that's okay; I'm contributing to OS diversity, and a new exit relay.
When Conrad wrote about getting a court order this week, and got a reply from
teor, and said he was getting help with it, my reaction was "as least he seems
to be getting help" - a comforting thought for an amateur reading this list who
has never seen a court order.
--torix
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