Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??

[F. Fox]

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simanis at vcn.bc.ca wrote:
> Not a professional techie, since running an exit node this fall I am
> being habitually banned from Google, Charter has asked me to stop
> spamming, and now today the police are at my door looking for Tobias.
(snip)
> 
> Hope this post goes to list, can't find list post commands.
> 

It made it to the list. =:o)

In any case, I set my node up as "middleman" from the beginning. Given
that I'm just running from my home, I wouldn't have a whole lot of
backing to defend from legal or police troubles; running as a middleman
allows me to provide capacity to the network, while avoiding most of the
liability (potentially) carried by exit nodes.

As others have suggested, I strongly recommend trying "going middleman"
before leaving the network completely. Taking an occasional peek at my
Tor service via TCPView (shouldn't be a problem, since I'm only
connected to other nodes), you'd be surprised how much utilization I get
even as a middleman! =:oD Every little bit of bandwidth helps.

- --
F. Fox
CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+
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