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Re: [tor-dev] Tor Geolocating exit nodes.



On 06/18/2014 04:38 AM, JP Wulf wrote:
> This geolocation could perhaps be used to validate the integrity of the
> nodes (how I dont know, maybe by establishing TOR honeypots that can only
> be compromised through traffic through a compromised (owned) exit node).

The Tor client does not trust the tor network by design. The user can
influence the client to use countries they think are safe. See
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#ChooseEntryExit


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