[tor-bugs] #4923 [Tor Directory Authority]: badexiting (or rejecting) relays from certain bad countries by default

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#4923: badexiting (or rejecting) relays from certain bad countries by default
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 Reporter:  arma                     |          Owner:                  
     Type:  enhancement              |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor Directory Authority  |        Version:                  
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [comment:9 arma]:

 > C) We could outright reject relays from countries where a) we have no
 useful relays and b) we have lots of users and some of them seem to be
 unwisely clicking 'share'. Syria and Iran are the big examples here. A
 major downside to preemptively rejecting these relays is that we'd be
 turning down the possibility of having a good relay in these countries if
 one should appear. Another major downside is that we're taking the
 decision away from the people -- in plenty of other situations we say "I
 assume you know more about what's going on your country than we do." A
 more minor downside is that we wouldn't be able to track popularity as
 easily. A major upside is that these users wouldn't be unknowingly putting
 themselves in a list. Another major upside is that we'd stop freaking out
 users ("omg there's a relay in Syria it must be run by the government").

 > I think there's a strong argument for trying to do "C" in Vidalia
 instead, by looking at the IP address Tor thinks it's using and having
 another "are you sure?" layer to becoming a relay. Though that said, if we
 wanted to do it in Vidalia maybe we should have thought of that before
 giving everybody the software.

 The copy of Vidalia shipped in TBB should not support configuring the copy
 of Tor shipped in TBB to run as a relay.

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