On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:53:39PM +0930, W Howard wrote:
Thanks for the information. I wanted to run a relay from home to support the project but I may instead contribute financially.
You could do both! :) That is, run a non-exit relay from home, and also donate.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#ExitPolicies
Non-exit relays are still quite useful, and with luck their bandwidth will become even more needed in the next year or two once we figure out what sort of cover traffic policies we want to deploy.
One of the up sides of a tor exit relay is the false traffic generated. Our meta data is now collected and I like the idea of filling it with junk traffic.
I think this idea doesn't work as well as some people (including, originally, me) hope it would.
For further reading, see also bullet point 2 on https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trip-report-tor-trainings-dutch-and-belgian...
Along these lines, I've also always liked the "As one commentator put it" section on https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/trackmenot_1.html
--Roger