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Re: [tor-talk] More and more websites block Tor, which will eventually become useless!



On 11/10/2013 3:12 PM, Akater wrote:
> The only solution would be recommending people to run exit nodes from home.
> 
> Actually I wonder why tor users seem to be convinced it's a bad idea. I
> used to think this IS the point of Tor. If you run exit node from home then
> nobody can prove that any particular activity was from you and not some
> other Tor user, right? (Provided you don't do stupid things.)
> 
> If, say, every 8th Internet user was running exit node there would be no
> blocks at all, I suppose. It takes a dictatorship to ban 12% of the
> population. Am I missing something?
> 
You don't run exit nodes from home unless you want to risk law
enforcement breaking down your door at 3:00 AM and subsequently
confiscating every computer/phone/camera/storage device you own... just
like these guys:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/16/bomb_threat_leads_police_to_raid_tor_operator/

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-May/020490.html




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