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   3 <title>This is a Tor Exit Router</title>
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   7 This notice is intended to be placed on a virtual host for a domain that
   8 your Tor exit node IP reverse resolves to so that people who may be about
   9 to file an abuse complaint would check it first before bothering you or
  10 your ISP. Ex:
  11 http://tor-exit.yourdomain.org or http://tor-readme.yourdomain.org.
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  13 This type of setup has proven very effective at reducing abuse complaints
  14 for exit node operators.
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  16 There are a few places in this document that you may want to customize.
  17 They are marked with FIXME.
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  24 <center><h1>This is a Tor Exit Router</h1></center>
  25
  26 <p>Most likely you are accessing this website because you had some issue with
  27 the traffic coming from this IP. This router is part of the <a
  28 href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor Anonymity Network</a>, which is
  29 dedicated to providing people with anonymity who need it most: average
  30 computer users. This router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless
  31 it has been compromised.
  32
  33 <p>
  34
  35 While Tor is not designed for malicious computer users, it is inevitable that
  36 some may use the network for malicious ends. In the mind of this operator,
  37 the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant anonymous
  38 communication trumps the risk. Tor sees use by many important segments of the
  39 population, including whistle blowers, journalists, Chinese dissidents
  40 skirting the Great Firewall and oppressive censorship, abuse victims,
  41 stalker targets, the US military, and law enforcement, just to name a few.
  42
  43 <p>
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  45 <!-- FIXME: you should probably grab your own copy of tor-route.png
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  47 <center><a href="https://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en">
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  50 <p>
  51
  52 In terms of applicable law, the best way to understand Tor is to consider it a
  53 network of routers operating as common carriers, much like the Internet
  54 backbone. However, unlike the Internet backbone routers, Tor routers
  55 explicitly do not contain identifiable routing information about the source of
  56 a packet.
  57
  58 <p>
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  60 As such, there is little the operator of this router can do to help you track
  61 the connection further. This router maintains no logs of any of the Tor
  62 traffic, so there is little that can be done to trace either legitimate or
  63 illegitimate traffic (or to filter one from the other).  Attempts to
  64 seize this router will accomplish nothing.
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  67 <!--- FIXME: US-Only section. Remove if you are a non-US operator -->
  68
  69 Furthermore, this machine also serves as a carrier of email, which means that
  70 its contents are further protected under the ECPA. <a
  71 href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002707----000-.html">18
  72 USC 2707</a> explicitly allows for civil remedies ($1000/account
  73 <i><b><u>plus</u></b></i>  legal fees)
  74 in the event of a seizure executed without good faith or probable cause (it
  75 should be clear at this point that traffic with an originating IP address of
  76 FIXME_DNS_NAME should not constitute probable cause to seize the
  77 machine). Similar considerations exist for 1st amendment content on this
  78 machine.
  79
  80 <p>
  81
  82 <!-- FIXME: May or may not be US-only. Some non-US tor nodes have in
  83 fact reported DMCA harassment... -->
  84
  85 If you are a representative of a company who feels that this router is being
  86 used to violate the DMCA, please be aware that this machine does not host or
  87 contain any illegal content. Also be aware that network infrastructure
  88 maintainers are not liable for the type of content that passes over their
  89 equipment, in accordance with <a
  90 href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html">DMCA
  91 "safe harbor" provisions</a>. In other words, you will have just as much luck
  92 sending a takedown notice to the Internet backbone providers. Please consult
  93 <a href="https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html">EFF's prepared
  94 response</a> for more information on this matter.
  95
  96 <p>For more information, please consult the following documentation:
  97
  98 <ol>
  99 <li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/overview.html">Tor Overview</a></li>
 100 <li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html">Tor Abuse FAQ</a></li>
 101 <li><a href="https://www.torproject.org//eff/tor-legal-faq.html">Tor Legal FAQ</a></li>
 102 </ol>
 103 <p>
 104
 105 That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router,  you may
 106 email the <a href="mailto:FIXME_YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS">maintainer</a>. If
 107 complaints are related to a particular service that is being abused, I will
 108 consider removing that service from my exit policy, which would prevent my
 109 router from allowing that traffic to exit through it. I can only do this on an
 110 IP+destination port basis, however. Common P2P ports are
 111 already blocked.
 112
 113 <p>You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on
 114 the Tor network if you so desire. The Tor project provides a <a
 115 href="https://www.torproject.org/cvs/tor/contrib/exitlist">python script</a> to
 116 extract all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes, and an official <a
 117 href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">DNSRBL</a> is also available to
 118 determine if a given IP address is actually a Tor exit server. Please
 119 be considerate
 120 when using these options. It would be unfortunate to deny all Tor users access
 121 to your site indefinitely simply because of a few bad apples.
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