In this way, running a relay marginally increases your anonymity.įyi if you are interested in running a relay, either to help your own anonymity or just to donate bandwidth to a worthy cause, it's pretty simple. (Imagine Kansas City becoming a hub of thousands of independent Tor relays because of the possibilities opened up by Google Fiber?)Īn interesting point is that, by running a relay, the traffic moving from your IP address to Tor could be either your traffic or the traffic of someone else on the Tor network. If we can get the culture right with a lot of westners donating fast high bandwidth connections with the Tor network, it would actually expand Tor's usability in those places where Tor means life or death. However, western consumers are generally richer in bandwidth compared to their brothers in Iran.

So highly recommend people always run at least as a relay node.Īs a meta, we're seeing new moves for privacy invasion in the west and some feel that this is waste of Tor's bandwidth and in comparison even most occupiers are in a less dangerous place than Iranian democrats. As a minimum it adds a layer of plausible deniablity. Should also note, for those who pushing their anonymity, adding noise to your signal makes your anonymity stronger. Tips for Running an Exit Node with Minimal Harassment people's with money, please consider hosting a decent exit/relay node: Tor Browser Bundle has made privacy very user friendly but unless we have the nodes to take in the new traffic, it'll will constrain the adoption rate.

This is a good spot to remind people that the Tor network depends on people donating bandwidth to keep the network fast and healthy.

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