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[tor-relays] Re: Questions about running an exit relay




On Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 at 6:33 PM, tor--- via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

First of all: Is this already a bad idea? Do you seperate tor relays and personal infrastructure physically or in VMs instead of containers?

Many years ago I ran my Tor exit on on University owned desktop (I work in academic IT).  This was very much allowed and know.

We received a court order to preserve the data on the system and were forbidden from informing the system owner, which was awkward since they had informed the system owner...

Since then I've always run my exit on a separate system on it's own IP so if there were a legal demand to turn over "the system" it would really only be that system. I'm not a lawyer but I don't think docker provides enough isolation for that.

This is a pretty rare situation, and I think more rare now than it was before law enforcement came to understand Tor and the lack of useful information it has, but it's not impossible and definitely worth considering as a risk.

-Jon

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