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11 This notice is intended to be placed on a virtual host for a domain that
12 your Tor exit node IP reverse resolves to so that people who may be about
13 to file an abuse complaint would check it first before bothering you or
14 your ISP. Ex:
15 http://tor-exit.yourdomain.org or http://tor-readme.yourdomain.org.
17 This type of setup has proven very effective at reducing abuse complaints
18 for exit node operators.
20 There are a few places in this document that you may want to customize.
21 They are marked with FIXME.
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29 Tor Exit Router</p>
31 <p>
32 Most likely you are accessing this website because you had some issue with
33 the traffic coming from this IP. This router is part of the <a
36 privacy</a> to people who need it most: average computer users. This
37 router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless it has been
38 compromised.</p>
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42 and serve it locally -->
46 <img src="https://www.torproject.org/images/how_tor_works_thumb.png" alt="How Tor works" style="border-style:none"/>
47 </a></p>
49 <p>
51 important segments of the population</a>, including whistle blowers,
52 journalists, Chinese dissidents skirting the Great Firewall and oppressive
53 censorship, abuse victims, stalker targets, the US military, and law
54 enforcement, just to name a few. While Tor is not designed for malicious
55 computer users, it is true that they can use the network for malicious ends.
56 In reality however, the actual amount of <a
58 is largely because criminals and hackers have significantly better access to
59 privacy and anonymity than do the regular users whom they prey upon. Criminals
60 can and do <a
63 href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_distributing_your.html">more
64 powerful networks</a> than Tor on a daily basis. Thus, in the mind of this
65 operator, the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant private,
66 anonymous communication trumps the risk of unskilled bad actors, who are
67 almost always more easily uncovered by traditional police work than by
68 extensive monitoring and surveillance anyway.</p>
70 <p>
71 In terms of applicable law, the best way to understand Tor is to consider it a
72 network of routers operating as common carriers, much like the Internet
73 backbone. However, unlike the Internet backbone routers, Tor routers
74 explicitly do not contain identifiable routing information about the source of
75 a packet, and no single Tor node can determine both the origin and destination
76 of a given transmission.</p>
78 <p>
79 As such, there is little the operator of this router can do to help you track
80 the connection further. This router maintains no logs of any of the Tor
81 traffic, so there is little that can be done to trace either legitimate or
82 illegitimate traffic (or to filter one from the other). Attempts to
83 seize this router will accomplish nothing.</p>
85 <!-- FIXME: US-Only section. Remove if you are a non-US operator -->
87 <p>
88 Furthermore, this machine also serves as a carrier of email, which means that
89 its contents are further protected under the ECPA. <a
93 in the event of a seizure executed without good faith or probable cause (it
94 should be clear at this point that traffic with an originating IP address of
95 FIXME_DNS_NAME should not constitute probable cause to seize the
96 machine). Similar considerations exist for 1st amendment content on this
97 machine.</p>
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100 fact reported DMCA harassment... -->
102 <p>
103 If you are a representative of a company who feels that this router is being
104 used to violate the DMCA, please be aware that this machine does not host or
105 contain any illegal content. Also be aware that network infrastructure
106 maintainers are not liable for the type of content that passes over their
107 equipment, in accordance with <a
110 sending a takedown notice to the Internet backbone providers. Please consult
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120 </ol>
122 <p>
123 That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may
125 complaints are related to a particular service that is being abused, I will
126 consider removing that service from my exit policy, which would prevent my
127 router from allowing that traffic to exit through it. I can only do this on an
128 IP+destination port basis, however. Common P2P ports are
129 already blocked.</p>
131 <p>
132 You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on
133 the Tor network if you so desire. The Tor project provides a <a
135 to fetch a list of all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes that allow exiting to a
136 specified IP:port combination, and an official <a
138 determine if a given IP address is actually a Tor exit server. Please
139 be considerate
140 when using these options. It would be unfortunate to deny all Tor users access
141 to your site indefinitely simply because of a few bad apples.</p>
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