[mirimir]

This is, of course, great news.

However, it's my impression that there is a surplus of entry and middle nodes, and a serious shortage of exit nodes, especially fast ones. Also, I've read that the geographic diversity of exit nodes is inadequate. I base these comments on discussions on the tor-talk and tor-relays lists, and from posts on the Tor Project blog.

[sp332]

Would it help if an ISP ran a couple of exit nodes plugged into core routers?

[AnthonyMouse]

It's actually better if 1000 different people each run a 40Mbps exit node than if one ISP runs a single 40Gbps one. You don't want to centralize control over the exit nodes because it increases the chance that party could control every node in a circuit.

[sp332]

If they're only running exit nodes, they're not going to control every node in a circuit.

[AnthonyMouse]

If you know which nodes they control you can easily avoid using them in the same circuit. But how are you supposed to know that? There is a configuration option to list other nodes you operate for exactly this purpose, but someone staging an attack is obviously not going to use it.