[tor-relays] non-exit risks?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:13:08PM -0500, David Carlson wrote:
>   Considering
> more sophisticated methods to detect and differentiate legitimate
> activity from nefarious activity would be too difficult, i suppose.

The step after that is when they intentionally over-list in order to try
to influence policy and trends. For example, when they start blocking
all your neighbors too, to get them to hate you and to encourage you to
stop whatever it is the blacklist operator doesn't like.

I'm a big fan of the lessons in
http://paulgraham.com/spamhausblacklist.html
(as linked from https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse#TypicalAbuses )

--Roger