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<p>Most likely you are accessing this website because you had some issue with
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the traffic coming from this IP. This router is part of the <a
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href="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor Anonymity Network</a>, which is
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-dedicated to providing people with anonymity who need it most: average
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-computer users. This router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless
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-it has been compromised.
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+dedicated to <a href="http://www.torproject.org/30seconds.html.en">providing
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+privacy</a> to people who need it most: average computer users. This
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+router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless it has been
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+compromised.
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<p>
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-While Tor is not designed for malicious computer users, it is inevitable that
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-some may use the network for malicious ends. In the mind of this operator,
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-the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant anonymous
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-communication trumps the risk. Tor sees use by many important segments of the
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-population, including whistle blowers, journalists, Chinese dissidents
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-skirting the Great Firewall and oppressive censorship, abuse victims,
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-stalker targets, the US military, and law enforcement, just to name a few.
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-
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-<p>
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<!-- FIXME: you should probably grab your own copy of how_tor_works_thumb.png
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and serve it locally -->
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@@ -49,11 +41,34 @@ and serve it locally -->
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<p>
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+Tor sees use by <a href="http://www.torproject.org/torusers.html.en">many
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+important segments of the population</a>, including whistle blowers,
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+journalists, Chinese dissidents skirting the Great Firewall and oppressive
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+censorship, abuse victims, stalker targets, the US military, and law
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+enforcement, just to name a few. While Tor is not designed for malicious
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+computer users, it is true that they can use the network for malicious ends.
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+In reality however, the actual amount of <a
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+href="https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html">abuse</a> is quite low. This
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+is largely because criminals and hackers have significantly better access to
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+privacy and anonymity than do the regular users whom they prey upon. Criminals
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+can and do <a
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+href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_tools.html">build,
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+sell, and trade</a> far larger and <a
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+href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_distributing_your.html">more
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+powerful networks</a> than Tor on a daily basis. Thus, in the mind of this
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+operator, the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant private,
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+anonymous communication trumps the risk of bad actors, who are almost always
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+more easily uncovered by traditional police work than by extensive monitoring
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+and surveillance.
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+
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+<p>
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+
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In terms of applicable law, the best way to understand Tor is to consider it a
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network of routers operating as common carriers, much like the Internet
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backbone. However, unlike the Internet backbone routers, Tor routers
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explicitly do not contain identifiable routing information about the source of
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-a packet.
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+a packet, and no single Tor node can determine both the origin and destination
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+of a given transmission.
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<p>
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@@ -98,7 +113,7 @@ response</a> for more information on this matter.
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<ol>
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<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/overview.html">Tor Overview</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html">Tor Abuse FAQ</a></li>
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-<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org//eff/tor-legal-faq.html">Tor Legal FAQ</a></li>
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+<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html">Tor Legal FAQ</a></li>
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</ol>
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<p>
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@@ -112,9 +127,9 @@ already blocked.
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<p>You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on
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the Tor network if you so desire. The Tor project provides a <a
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-href="https://www.torproject.org/cvs/tor/contrib/exitlist">python script</a> to
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+href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/tor/trunk/contrib/exitlist">python script</a> to
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extract all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes, and an official <a
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-href="http://exitlist.torproject.org/">DNSRBL</a> is also available to
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+href="https://www.torproject.org/tordnsel/">DNSRBL</a> is also available to
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determine if a given IP address is actually a Tor exit server. Please
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be considerate
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when using these options. It would be unfortunate to deny all Tor users access
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Mike Perry