On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Rod Beck wrote:
This has nothing to do with telecommunications or any kind of carrier or business relationship. This is intentionally leaving your computer open so that anyone on the Internet can come along and appear to be coming from your IP, where they will promptly set off doing bad stuff that will get traced back to you rather than them. Think of it like intentionally [snip]
From what I know, the bigger exit node operators are fully aware of
Not sure if this just "happened" to pop up on the radar because of all the tor work being done to provide access out of Iran for citizens there that are blocked. Probably just a co-incidence, but since I just got done reading a bunch and setting up a bridge node (provate relay), I can say that there are also levels of liability. There are tor entry/egress points (where users enter and exit the tor netowrk), usually referred to as "exit nodes", and then there are a bunch of tor relay nodes. A relay node just becomes part of the network, and sends and receives traffic inside the tor network. This _should_ be the most common configuration, but some people do not RTM and make themselves exit nodes. That is where you get into trouble. Relay nodes just pass encrypted packets - no exiting allowed. The third configuration is called a "bridge" node. This is a relay that does not tell anyone it is a node. A controller has a copy of that nodes public key, and builds a private network. Moral: you can help with tor without leaving yourself open to sbuse. the responsibility they have. -- steve