[tor-relays] Tor relay making normal internet unusable

[Roger Dingledine]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:53:39PM +0930, W Howard wrote:
> Thanks for the information. I wanted to run a relay from home to
>support the project but I may instead contribute financially.

You could do both! :) That is, run a non-exit relay from home, and
also donate.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#ExitPolicies

Non-exit relays are still quite useful, and with luck their bandwidth
will become even more needed in the next year or two once we figure out
what sort of cover traffic policies we want to deploy.

> One of the up sides of a tor exit relay is the false traffic
>generated. Our meta data is now collected and I like the idea of filling
>it with junk traffic.

I think this idea doesn't work as well as some people (including,
originally, me) hope it would.

For further reading, see also bullet point 2 on
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trip-report-tor-trainings-dutch-and-belgian-police

Along these lines, I've also always liked the "As one commentator put
it" section on
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/trackmenot_1.html

--Roger