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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">>As to the blog post you mention… Your statements are very generic: now you talk about "not blocking tor", but tor is not just one webpage, one server, a monolithic entity. I
would appreciate details: If your customer has "advanced security" activated, can he connect to any ORPort of any tor middle relay?
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Fair enough. That post was in any case from 2014 and the questions are different today (I just used it as an example that we’re not against Tor). Honestly, I’m a little surprised that someone running a Tor exit node would not be using their own cable modem
and running their own router (whether open source a la Openwrt or commercial). If someone wants to do stuff like run a Tor exit node or run a MASQUE relay or whatever, I’d recommend they turn off Advanced Security and manage their routing & firewall rules
themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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>Sorry if I am a bit repetitive, but <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.xfinity.com/support/articles/using-xfinity-xfi-advanced-security__;!!CQl3mcHX2A!GL-M865o8Ul6VQiGJSAHwue9MmlLnlCkSlez2kSjTpTq91B5S2TV_6hpdIS3pBMgjK8UBjTiRgcW8Hu1XzhBRik$" target="_blank">https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/using-xfinity-xfi-advanced-security</a> mentions
"Blocks remote access to smart devices from known dangerous sources.". What do you mean by dangerous sources, and does it include tor relays or exits?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It may be down to the fact that “unknown” users connect to the relay/exit and that the average consumer user of the Advanced Security service does not want that. I suspect if
someone wants this, it’s best to toggle Advanced Security off. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> I don't know whether this customer has "Advanced security" turned on, I just assume he has. Do you want me to send you privately more details (my IP and this peer's IP)?
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Sure – I am happy to look at that confidentially. But it could be a wide range of other things – even basic things like someone’s router timing out external connections after X minutes, etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> So you remind me of an old joke: who should I believe, you, or my eyes? Sorry, I choose my eyes. I am talking here about direction from my node to Comcast. It is still possible
that you don't block connections from Comcast to relays, I have contradictory evidence about this point. So if your "not blocking tor" means "not preventing our customer from connecting to some tor relays", this could be true.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Alternatively, given the large size of our network, if we were in fact blocking this, then I’d expect to see this list filled with complaints and social media sites (<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=comcast%20tor&src=typed_query&f=top">Twitter</a>,
Reddit, etc.) filled with complaints. But what I see now is a single report. That said, I routinely look at such reports when they seem at odds with our network policies so as to be certain there’s not some misconfiguration or bug someplace.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Jason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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