This is a Tor Exit Router
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-Most likely you are accessing this website because you had some issue with +You are most likely accessing this website because you've had some issue with the traffic coming from this IP. This router is part of the Tor Anonymity Network, which is -dedicated to providing +dedicated to providing privacy to people who need it most: average computer users. This router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless it has been compromised.
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+Tor works by running user traffic through a random chain of encrypted +servers, and then letting the traffic exit the Tor network through an +exit node like this one. This design makes it very hard for a service to +know which user is connecting to it, since it can only see the IP-address +of the Tor exit node:
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-Tor sees use by many +Read more about how Tor works.
+ ++Tor sees use by many important segments of the population, including whistle blowers, journalists, Chinese dissidents skirting the Great Firewall and oppressive censorship, abuse victims, stalker targets, the US military, and law enforcement, just to name a few. While Tor is not designed for malicious computer users, it is true that they can use the network for malicious ends. In reality however, the actual amount of abuse is quite low. This +href="https://support.torproject.org/abuse/">abuse is quite low. This is largely because criminals and hackers have significantly better access to privacy and anonymity than do the regular users whom they prey upon. Criminals can and do build, +href="https://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_tools.html">build, sell, and trade far larger and more +href="https://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_distributing_your.html">more powerful networks than Tor on a daily basis. Thus, in the mind of this operator, the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant private, anonymous communication trumps the risk of unskilled bad actors, who are @@ -256,7 +292,7 @@ Furthermore, this machine also serves as a carrier of email, which means that its contents are further protected under the ECPA. 18 USC 2707 explicitly allows for civil remedies ($1000/account -plus legal fees) +plus legal fees) in the event of a seizure executed without good faith or probable cause (it should be clear at this point that traffic with an originating IP address of FIXME_DNS_NAME should not constitute probable cause to seize the @@ -275,16 +311,16 @@ equipment, in accordance with DMCA "safe harbor" provisions. In other words, you will have just as much luck sending a takedown notice to the Internet backbone providers. Please consult -EFF's prepared +EFF's prepared response for more information on this matter.
For more information, please consult the following documentation:
- +That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may @@ -298,14 +334,15 @@ already blocked.
You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on the Tor network if you so desire. The Tor project provides a web service +href="https://check.torproject.org/torbulkexitlist">web service to fetch a list of all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes that allow exiting to a specified IP:port combination, and an official DNSRBL is also available to +href="https://dist.torproject.org/tordnsel/">DNSRBL is also available to determine if a given IP address is actually a Tor exit server. Please be considerate when using these options. It would be unfortunate to deny all Tor users access to your site indefinitely simply because of a few bad apples.
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