I recently held an Ask Me Anything on Reddit about Tor. For those that don't know, Reddit is famous for its AMAs, wherein someone unique or otherwise interesting will introduce themselves and then the community gets a chance to ask questions and learn. Traditionally it's been used as an excellent way of asking the questions that you never get an opportunity to ask. We've seen everyone from Chris Hadfield to Barack Obama give AMAs. Since I run some relays and a couple of exits I figured I'd give it a shot, and there was quite the turnout! I got responses from all over the world, and I strongly feel that it was a very educational moment for everyone. The main thread was voted on by about a thousand people, but many Redditors don't log on so I'd say that many thousands of people read it. The thread is still ongoing and I'll continue to answer questions as they arrive, but I figured that I'd share it with everyone since it's winding down. Pretty cool news moment for Tor, and should help clear up some misconceptions and correct public perceptions.
https://pay.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/20243q/iaman_operator_of_eight_tor_re...
Thanks guys. Jesse V.
On 2014-03-11 08:13 , Jesse Victors wrote:
... Since I run some relays and a couple of exits ..
From a trust perspective you effectively only run one (1) though ;).
As they are operated by one entity and also are in the same location (IP-wise in the same /24), the latter will make Tor only use it once in a connection, thus either they will relay or they will exit or not use your set at all. Thus nothing bad there.
You seem to also not have configured the "Family" field[1], you might want to do that.
You did set the contact field similar; which makes me think, should Tor check that and maybe make a decision based on that info? (same as [1], baddies will avoid that).
From reading the rest of the AMA, I think you did a good thing with
answers! Great work!
You might want to point to it from the Stackoverflow thingie: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tor
Greets, Jeroen
(no time for reddit and similar thing, thus no acct, but otherwise you would have gotten a few points from me for that thread)
[1] the jury is still out on this, as a baddies of course will not set it either and then it won't show up and afaik there was discussion on removing it as it does not help too much.
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