On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:11 PM, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Running an exit node from home DSL or Cable is bad idea. One must look > >> for a Tor friendly ISP and have balls made of steel! > > ... ISP[/hoster] and[/or] have ... > > > However, I do not believe it is that way in > > the United States > > What 'way'? > > Running an exit node at home, or elsewhere, would seem to come > down to... > > a) Are you physically ready for a query / subpoena / search warrant / > exigent raid? > Are things segregated by room? > Are your doors and machines labeled with the same sort of exit node notice > you'd put on the TCP port and in DNS? > Have you inventoried, photographed and documented your setup and property? > Do you have offsite backups? > Are private things encrypted? > Are any co-habitants aware and similarly prepared? > > b) Are you mentally ready? > Is your life and butt otherwise clean, legal, and organized? > If you were to appear in court, how would you act and be perceived? > How do you feel about being in the news and in public docs? > Have you networked with other operators and entities? > > c) Are you legally, financially, and timewise ready? > Have you consulted with and preselected a couple attorneys? > Have you made arrangements for making bail? > How will you make court required appearances? > > All these sorts of meta things, and surely more, come into play whether > or not you're ever raided. I'd suggest making a wiki article for them. > > I do believe some one sounds very paranoid. If you feel that way, you have been around here long enough to know what you can do to avoid all the ' what if's '. All that paranoia is what causes stress related illnesses. Running a exit node on DSL or Cable from home, is just as safe, I believe, as running it through a provider from another country. There are options one can use if they do not want to run a full exit relay node. As they can run a middle node which cuts down the probability of legal issues arising. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
