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+<title>This is a Tor Exit Router</title>
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+This notice is intended to be placed on a virtual host for a domain that
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+your Tor exit node IP reverse resolves to so that people who may be about
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+to file an abuse complaint would check it first before bothering you or
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+your ISP. Ex:
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+http://tor-exit.yourdomain.org or http://tor-readme.yourdomain.org.
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+This type of setup has proven very effective at reducing abuse complaints
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+for exit node operators.
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+There are a few places in this document that you may want to customize.
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+They are marked with FIXME.
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+-->
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+</head>
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+<body bgcolor=white text=black>
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+<center><h1>This is a Tor Exit Router</h1></center>
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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="http://tor.eff.org/index.html">Tor Anonymous 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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+<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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+<p>
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+
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+and serve it locally -->
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+<center><a href="http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en">
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+<img src="http://tor-exit.fscked.org/tor-route.png"></a></center>
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+<p>
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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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+<p>
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+As such, there is little the operator of this router can do to help you track
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+the connection further. This router maintains no logs of any of the Tor
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+traffic, so there is little that can be done to trace either legitimate or
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+illegitimate traffic (or to filter one from the other). Attempts to
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+seize this router will accomplish nothing.
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+<p>
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+Furthermore, this machine also serves as a carrier of email, which means that
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+its contents are further protected under the ECPA. <a
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+href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002707----000-.html">18
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+USC 2707</a> explicitly allows for civil remedies ($1000/account
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+<i><b><u>plus</u></b></i> legal fees)
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+in the event of a seizure executed without good faith or probable cause (it
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+should be clear at this point that traffic with an originating IP address of
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+FIXME_DNS_NAME should not constitute probable cause to seize the
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+machine). Similar considerations exist for 1st amendment content on this
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+machine.
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+
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+<p>
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+
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+fact reported DMCA harassment... -->
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+If you are a representative of a company who feels that this router is being
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+used to violate the DMCA, please be aware that this machine does not host or
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+contain any illegal content. Also be aware that network infrastructure
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+maintainers are not liable for the type of content that passes over their
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+equipment, in accordance with <a
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+href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html">DMCA
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+"safe harbor" provisions</a>. In other words, you will have just as much luck
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+sending a takedown notice to the Internet backbone providers. Please consult
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+<a href="http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html">EFF's prepared
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+response</a> for more information on this matter.
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+
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+<p>For more information, please consult the following documentation:
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+
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+<ol>
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+<li><a href="http://tor.eff.org/overview.html">Tor Overview</a></li>
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+<li><a href="http://tor.eff.org/faq-abuse.html">Tor Abuse FAQ</a></li>
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+<li><a href="http://tor.eff.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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+
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+That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may
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+email the <a href="mailto:FIXME_YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS">maintainer</a>. If
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+complaints are related to a particular service that is being abused, I will
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+consider removing that service from my exit policy, which would prevent my
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+router from allowing that traffic to exit through it. I can only do this on a
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+IP+destination port basis, however. Common P2P and IRC ports are
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+already blocked.
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+
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+<p>You also have the option of blocking this IP and others on the Tor network
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+if you so desire. The Tor project provides a <a
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+href="http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/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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+determine if a given IP is actually a Tor exit server. Please be considerate
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+when using these options. It would be unfortunate to deny all Tor users access
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+to your site indefinitely simply because of a few bad apples.
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+
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+</body>
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+</html>
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Mike Perry