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by jandrese 236 days ago
There is one form of harassment though, if you run even just a TOR Relay you tend to be put on realtime blackhole lists regularly which will cause random websites to refuse your connection. Things like banks, ticket sites, even your insurance company might suddenly block your connection because your IP is listed as "Exterme Risk, active threats, verified" on one of like 200 RBL sites because someone scraped TOR and put all of the IP addresses they found on there and tagged them as active threats.
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immibis 236 days ago
Don't run it at home then.

Or do, and call your bank's customer support until they fix it.

Or wait until the next day when it's your neighbour's problem because your IP changes every day and your bank gets a bunch of complaints from different customers who are your neighbours.

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dpoloncsak 236 days ago
....do ISP provided public IPs really change that often...? My homelab's public IP has been the same so long I have all four octets memorized....and I don't remember ever asking (or paying for) a static one.

I know they can, and sometimes do, but do people really experience this daily/weekly?

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wolrah 236 days ago
On DOCSIS and PON networks my experience has been that dynamic IPs are generally stable as long as your DHCP lease is active, so my IP generally wouldn't change unless I changed equipment or there was an extended outage that kept me offline during the entire time it would normally have renewed.

On DSL networks it's been the opposite, if the PPPoE session was lost I was definitely going to get a new IP address, and on some providers the session would be reset every 1-7 days so the IP would change at exactly the same time of day which almost always ended up being in the middle of a work day corresponding with whenever the equipment was last rebooted due to some other problem. I got in the habit of setting up my equipment to restart on its own terms in the middle of the night on those providers, but this came with its own downsides when something would go wrong and it'd fail to negotiate.

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RealityVoid 235 days ago
> because someone scraped TOR and put all of the IP addresses they found on there and tagged them as active threats.

Yeah, or, hear me out... Someone used the exit node for active attacks. (Gasp! What? On my onion?)

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jandrese 235 days ago
I'm not an exit node, only a relay.
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