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TOR Exit Nodes and US .Edus?


From: Shawn Merdinger <shawnmer () GMAIL COM>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:08:58 -0400

Hi List Folks,

Looking at https://torstatus.blutmagie.de it appears a number of US
universities and colleges are running TOR exit nodes.

For example:

sipb-tor.mit.edu
tor-exit.eecs.umich.edu
belegost.csail.mit.edu
tor-exit.eecs.umich.edu
tor00.telenet.unc.edu
freeland.student.rit.edu
tor-exit.csail.mit.edu
tor-node.rutgers.edu
cs-tor.bu.edu
onions.mit.edu
tor-exit-node.cs.washington.edu
epitaphtwo.stanford.edu
tor-node.cs.usu.edu
bomboloni.mit.edu
thangorodrim.stanford.edu
tor-node.cs.usu.edu
torrouter.ucar.edu
d23-105.uoregon.edu
yofgerr.ucar.edu
tor-exit-node.cs.usu.edu
dhcp-172-214.caltech.edu
tor-relay.cs.usu.edu
tor-relay.cs.usu.edu
torrouter.ucar.edu
yofgerr.ucar.edu
tor-exit-node-2.cs.usu.edu
uncle-enzo.mit.edu
tor-exit-node.cs.usu.edu
wangata.ml-ext.ucar.edu
tor-exit-node-2.cs.usu.edu
wangata.ml-ext.ucar.edu
moria.csail.mit.edu
towhee.csail.mit.edu
ozone.uoregon.edu
dhcp-v14-00117.highsouth-resnet.unc.edu
xvm-five-28.mit.edu
moria.csail.mit.edu
intended.cs.wesleyan.edu
raspberrytea.mit.edu
ibben.stanford.edu
li3n45-38.mtholyoke.edu
dhcp135.cs.columbia.edu
ibben.stanford.edu
torrouter.ml-ext.ucar.edu
tor-relay00.ailab.wsu.edu
tanet-tor-exit.mit.edu
rdserv.student.rit.edu
csg-gate.eecs.wsu.edu
cast-tor.cast.uark.edu
dhcp-168-242.caltech.edu
dhcp0052.community.resnet.group.upenn.edu
a01165910-raspi.bluezone.usu.edu
saylor-02.feldberg.brandeis.edu
ccrps33.cs.csubak.edu
torg.cns.ksu.edu
caslab.eng.yale.edu
planetlabone.ccs.neu.edu

I am curious as to what challenges, internal and external, there are
to providing TOR exit nodes.  Any institution have a formal, written
policy?  Any push-back (or support) from legal, professors,
administration, campus police?  Anecdotal stories to share of issues,
positive or negative?  Abuse complaints?

Cheers,
--scm


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