[tor-talk] Tragedy of the commons.

[Chris Patti]

I understood the legal implications.  See my above note about the abuse
report from Linode.

I'm not complaining, just noting that it's unfortunate that folks have to
abuse things.



On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:39:31 -0400
> Chris Patti <cpatti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just had to shut my relay down because someone was using it to hijack
> > someone else's Gmail account :\
> >
> > Dunno how I could get around this other than by blocking port 80, which
> is
> > kind of the point :)
>
> "The point" of what? -- and for the record, GMail Web interface uses HTTPS
> (port 443), not 80.
>
> If you don't want to run a 80/443 exit node, then consider allowing a
> number
> of different ports except those, AFAIK exits are scarce enough that any
> port
> that is used by people for anything that you can allow, will get used.
>
> However if you run an Exit node without fully understanding legal and other
> implications (and you seem to do just that), then by all means please
> don't :)
>
> --
> With respect,
> Roman
>



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