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by d0ugie 4473 days ago
It's touching that people want and have the means to help the Turks continue to communicate thanks to Tor. But it's too bad that running a Tor exit node, due to what Tor is so commonly used for by nature of anonymity, is such a glaring liability[1] to the operator -- and, due to how easily and commonly Tor exit nodes can be used nefariously, a liability to the users[2].

Hopefully uProxy, slated to be released this summer, will address these issues effectively by incorporating a trust model[3] into facilitating circumvention through such censorship walls. Meanwhile, more and more https[4] would be helpful.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-char... [2] http://cryptome.org/2014/01/spoiled-onions.pdf [3] https://www.asl19.org/en/know-more-about-uproxy-live-qa-with... [4] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/staying-at-forefront-...