Hello, i was thinking about the value of of being able to setup Tor Exit relay that are non-abuse generating, limiting the risks, problems and (partially) liability of a Tor relay operator, while still pumping a lot of traffic out of the Tor network.
Being able to contribute to the Tor network, without all the risks and the burden of getting hit by frequent abuse emails triggering your ISP to take your internet connection / server down, would be an amazing things for Tor, enlarging the base of volounteers that could be help Tor network. That would be an amazing major step forward for the Tor network support! It would enable the possibility to have the end-users, running the Tor Browsers, to click "Contribute to Tor network", then picking the destination they do want to allow (that are not-abuse-generating) among the top 30 traffic destinations. Those can be dynamically measured by the network, by leveraging AS-awareness (es: Google's 17 AS maybe just represented as "Google"). Those could enable "crowdsourcing" for offloading the top destinations (that are very likely not-abuse generating) among the end-users, leaving more capacity to the Tor Exit relays that are capable, knowledgable and organized to run Tor Exit relays (that's the current network of Tor Relay operators). Below for example some likely high traffic destinations amount of AS numbers per destinations: Google (17 AS) Facebook (1 AS) Twitter (3 AS) Microsoft (28 AS) Yahoo (59 AS) Wikipedia (3 AS) Linkedin (9 AS) Github (1 AS) Cloudflare (5 AS) That would require as a building block a feature to enable Exit policy awareness, to define exit traffic. I opened a bunch of tickets as a brain dump around those possible scenarios: Enable Exit Policy by Autonomous System Numbers https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18267 Make Tor aware of the top-30 destinations of Tor Exit traffic https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18268 Enable TorBrowser users to become "easy to be run" Tor Exit relay https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18269 -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - https://ahmia.fi -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
