[tor-relays] these ~790 tor relays will be removed from the network unless they upgrade

[Steve Snyder]

On 10/4/19 7:39 AM, lists at for-privacy.net wrote:
> On 04.10.2019 12:24, nusenu wrote:
>> As previously written on 2019-09-03
>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-September/017711.html
>>
>>
>> the Tor directory authorities are about to remove
>> relays from the network if they run end-of-life versions of tor.
>>
>> Here is the list of affected relays that will be **removed**
>> from the network as of **next week** unless they upgrade
>> to a supported version of tor.
>>
> 
> I'm horrified how many they are.
> 
> Many users of the Tor network have to pay long prison terms, torture or
> their lives if they are de-anonymized!
> 
> Everyone should think about that and not be so careless with the server.
> 
> There will be many servers out **next week**. :-(
> I think I rent another server and set up 2 new tor-instances.

And the servers themselves probably have all kinds of unpatched
vulnerabilities even apart from the Tor version being run. That server
at the top of the list has an uptime of 289 days!