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Re: Exit node connection statistics



On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:43 AM,  <mplsfox02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jan Reister:
>>
>> I would probably add your node to my ExcludeNodes entry.
>
> I would like to see a discussion about this.
>
> So you'd prefer using exit nodes that keep that information for their own?
> Why? Or do you blindly trust all other Tor operators until they show some
> "bad" behaviour?
>
> I'm not a friend of two-classes knowledge, and what a Tor node operator can
> know, everybody can know. Else it's nothing but security by obscurity.
>
> Can you explain what the threat scenario is for what I'm doing?
>

IMO not very much at all, as long as your node remains anonymous. You
shouldn't be endangering the anonymity of users.