[qbasic_forever]

It's not really a user concern. It's highlighting that open relays like this are infamously abused and the people that run them can face pretty serious investigations or worse. It would not be fun to be woken up by interpol or the FBI yanking you out of bed with guns drawn because someone was using your public bore.pub service to host or send malicious or criminal content, control a botnet, etc.

[ekzhang]

Wow, that’s pretty violent. Excuse me! Bore is just a proxy I wrote on a train ride home, and I’m making it public for its own sake. I’d honestly rather you not make intimidating suggestions towards threats like this.

[DenseComet]

It's not useful to bury your head in the sand and write it off as an intimidating suggestion. Take a look at the Tor relay operations faq [1].

> Has anyone ever been sued or prosecuted for running Tor?

> Although we are not aware of an individual being sued, prosecuted, or convicted for running a Tor relay, law enforcement in the United States and other countries has occasionally mistakenly investigated individuals running a Tor relay. We believe that running a Tor relay, including an exit relay that allows people to anonymously send and receive traffic, is legal under U.S. law. Law enforcement, however, often misunderstands how Tor works and has occasionally attributed illegal traffic on the network as originating from a Tor exit relay. This has resulted in police suspecting Tor relay operators of crimes and sometimes seizing computer equipment, including Tor relays. For example, in 2016 Seattle police mistakenly raided the home of a privacy activist operating a Tor exit relay. And Russian authorities wrongfully arrested math instructor and Tor relay operator Dmitry Bogatov, though they later cleared him of charges.

[1] https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/e...

[qbasic_forever]

This isn't a threat, this is a warning to be careful about how police and investigators operate with little knowledge of how the internet actually works. If someone were hosting a web server with child porn tunneled through your bore.pub service the authorities would only see bore.pub IPs in traffic logs, and they would definitely contact the DNS and IP block owner to figure exactly who runs that bore.pub server (you) and get a warrant to seize their computers.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

I don’t think Parent was making a threat, and think it’s poor form you chose to take it that way.