[tor-relays] Experience with obfuscated bridge on Raspberry Pi Raspian

[z0rc]

Hi,

As lately there were many discussions on getting Tor from the 
experimental repository running on Raspian, I thought I would share my 
experiences here.

First, I tried to install Tor following [1] and [2] and ran into the 
same compatibility issues as most of you. But then I just downloaded the 
soft-float version of Raspian "wheezy" from [3]. And I could install Tor 
and obsproxy from the experimental repository without any issues (i.e. 
without any compiling or complex configurations).

I ran the obfuscated bridge for a week and it relayed a few 100 MB 
without any problems. The bridge is connected to a standard home cable 
connection in Switzerland (router runs pfSense). Of course the load was 
not too high due to only running an obfuscated bridge.

After the week I decided to shut the bridge down because I heard from 
people being contacted by the police even though only running a non-exit 
relay. As I share a flat with some friends, I absolutely cannot afford 
being raided or similar. If anyone can give me some advice on running 
non-exit relays at home in Switzerland, I might consider running the 
bridge again.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Damian


[1] 
https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions.html.en#instructions
[2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#development
[3] http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads