Policy for new Tor dirservers

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Thu Mar 23 08:15:55 UTC 2006


On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:10:04AM +0100, Lexi Pimenidis wrote:
> > >   - An addendum to the "if somebody asks you to backdoor your
> > >   server" above: if you fail to fight it, you must shut down the Tor
> > >   server and notify us that you have.
> > 
> > Maybe you have to substitute "must" with "should" -- because it may
> > possible that in some jurisdictions the shut down may not be an
> > option.
> 
> I think that there will be enough secret and hidden sidechannels to
> notify somebody, if you need to do so. And even if its by meeting
> somebody in person and telling him/her.

Another thought is to stick with the original wording. This means
either that we will have no authoritative directory servers in such
jurisdictions, or that server operators will not follow such laws.

--Roger



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