On 01/16/2015 02:00 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Hi Josef, > > Exit nodes provide most value to the network, as they will also be able > to handle entry and middle traffic. > > As for porn: maybe the wiki page on porn legality [1] explains it. Also > note that this kind of traffic helps to mask other kinds of Tor traffic, > essentially helping the network (not to mention the popularity gain). > Oh, and don't forget that the "normal" internet also has quite a high > share of this kind of traffic.
The Internet Is For Porn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs > Tom > > > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region > > > Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner schreef op 16/01/15 om 21:40: >> Hello List, >> >> I first heard from TOR after the leaks of snowden and started to read a >> lot about TOR but never used it - and I still don't use it (I just don't >> have the need for it). >> Before christmas I started a tor relay on my dedicated server. To be >> clear: Just a normal middle relay with 100 MBit/s advertised and 200 >> MBit/s burst. While the holidays more and more traffic was going over >> the network card. >> >> After a week I decided to increase the speed to 200 MBit/s advertised >> bandwidth. >> A day later I took the reduced exit rules and kicked out some more >> ports. So now I'm running an exit relay. >> >> The past days I made some short tcpdump traces to find out what people >> use TOR for. Well, it's kind of sad. A short analyse of the hostnames >> gave me the result: 80% Porn, 10% site crawling, 5% Wordpress comment >> spam and 5% "human" traffic. >> I don't get why people use TOR for watching porn. >> >> Now I dived deeper into the TOR architecture. I read that now that I'm >> running an exit relay I'm not able to be a normal middle relay (please >> tell me if I'm wrong). >> >> Since I'm not willing to help people with my exit relay just to watch >> anonymous porn on the web, I would rather help the people inside the >> network stay anonymous and speedup the network itself - thus just >> running a normal relay. I'm aware that the porn traffic will still be >> running through the relay but also the "better"/wanted relay-to-relay >> traffic. >> >> Long story short: What type of relay helps the TOR project more? >> Exit-Relay or Middle-relay? Is it really the "job" from TOR to provide >> an exit to the normal internet ressources or should the focus be on >> hidden services? >> >> Thanks in advance for your comments/suggestions, >> >> Josef >> >> P.S.: I'm posting this to the normal tor-talk Mailinglist because I want >> to catch the opinion from the community and don't have a probleme with >> the relay software itself. >> >> >> > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
