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On 09/02/14 18:14, Simon Avery wrote: > Not so sure. > > uProxy *is* interesting, it shows some political awareness and > willingness to engage by google, and also a degree of irony. > > It appears to simplify proxying through friends, nothing more. Nothing > that a bunch of plugins don't do already, but perhaps in a friendlier > way and if linked to a list/group of people willing to share their > connections, great. > > But I won't be on that list. > > It's unclear whether your friend (the exit node of your proxy) has to > approve every site, in which case you've now got a new censor - or > whether they act as a dumb tunnel. The risks of abuse to letting even > a friend use your internet connection are huge and I doubt I need to > spell them out here of all places. I'd rather my front door stayed > intact and not smashed down by the anti-terorist / anti-drug / > anti-hacking / anti-abuse / anti-pedofile police because my IP had > been associated with same. > > Yes, you might successfully argue that it was somebody else, but not > until all your IT equipment had been siezed and analysed for months > and in the last of my suggested cases, your life ruined. > > I'll leave being a proxy exit node to organisations with more > political will than myself. I don't think Google can act as one given > it operates in America and is subject to their laws. > I run multiple Tor exit nodes (although not at home, purely because of bandwidth constraints on my cable connection). Does some bad stuff go through them? Almost undoubtedly, but I haven't even looked. A couple of years back a client who was letting me use some spare server/bandwidth capacity to run an exit node was actually contacted by the police as "something bad" (they never said exactly what it was, obviously) apparently resolved to our Tor box's IP. We pretty much briefly explained what Tor was, pointed them at the wikipedia article and that was that. They never even got back to us and that particular relay is still up and running. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq