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| author | Mike Perry <mikeperry-git@fscked.org> | 2008-03-22 18:53:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Perry <mikeperry-git@fscked.org> | 2008-03-22 18:53:09 +0000 |
| commit | 0b88a1c579baa049f7a590dc72c152f89862f334 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f47ac6e4818b4ae1dc7ea50411f3e739ee7993a /contrib | |
| parent | f5215002e232878a22af602b54a52dca425d5a03 (diff) | |
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Add Tor exit node notice page to contrib.
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diff --git a/contrib/tor-exit-notice.html b/contrib/tor-exit-notice.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a59bb0bd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/tor-exit-notice.html @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +<html> +<head> +<title>This is a Tor Exit Router</title> + +<!-- + +This notice is intended to be placed on a virtual host for a domain that +your Tor exit node IP reverse resolves to so that people who may be about +to file an abuse complaint would check it first before bothering you or +your ISP. Ex: +http://tor-exit.yourdomain.org or http://tor-readme.yourdomain.org. + +This type of setup has proven very effective at reducing abuse complaints +for exit node operators. + +There are a few places in this document that you may want to customize. +They are marked with FIXME. + +--> + +</head> +<body bgcolor=white text=black> + +<center><h1>This is a Tor Exit Router</h1></center> + +<p>Most likely you are accessing this website because you had some issue with +the traffic coming from this IP. This router is part of the <a +href="http://tor.eff.org/index.html">Tor Anonymous Network</a>, which is +dedicated to providing people with anonymity who need it most: average +computer users. This router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless +it has been compromised. + +<p> + +While Tor is not designed for malicious computer users, it is inevitable that +some may use the network for malicious ends. In the mind of this operator, +the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant anonymous +communication trumps the risk. 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. + +<p> + +<!-- FIXME: you should probably grab your own copy of tor-route.png +and serve it locally --> +<center><a href="http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en"> +<img src="http://tor-exit.fscked.org/tor-route.png"></a></center> + +<p> + +In terms of applicable law, the best way to understand Tor is to consider it a +network of routers operating as common carriers, much like the Internet +backbone. However, unlike the Internet backbone routers, Tor routers +explicitly do not contain identifiable routing information about the source of +a packet. + +<p> + +As such, there is little the operator of this router can do to help you track +the connection further. This router maintains no logs of any of the Tor +traffic, so there is little that can be done to trace either legitimate or +illegitimate traffic (or to filter one from the other). Attempts to +seize this router will accomplish nothing. +<p> + +<!--- FIXME: US-Only section. Remove if you are a non-US operator --> + +Furthermore, this machine also serves as a carrier of email, which means that +its contents are further protected under the ECPA. <a +href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002707----000-.html">18 +USC 2707</a> explicitly allows for civil remedies ($1000/account +<i><b><u>plus</u></b></i> 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 +machine). Similar considerations exist for 1st amendment content on this +machine. + +<p> + +<!-- FIXME: May or may not be US-only. Some non-US tor nodes have in +fact reported DMCA harassment... --> + +If you are a representative of a company who feels that this router is being +used to violate the DMCA, please be aware that this machine does not host or +contain any illegal content. Also be aware that network infrastructure +maintainers are not liable for the type of content that passes over their +equipment, in accordance with <a +href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000512----000-.html">DMCA +"safe harbor" provisions</a>. In other words, you will have just as much luck +sending a takedown notice to the Internet backbone providers. Please consult +<a href="http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html">EFF's prepared +response</a> for more information on this matter. + +<p>For more information, please consult the following documentation: + +<ol> +<li><a href="http://tor.eff.org/overview.html">Tor Overview</a></li> +<li><a href="http://tor.eff.org/faq-abuse.html">Tor Abuse FAQ</a></li> +<li><a href="http://tor.eff.org//eff/tor-legal-faq.html">Tor Legal FAQ</a></li> +</ol> +<p> + +That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may +email the <a href="mailto:FIXME_YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS">maintainer</a>. If +complaints are related to a particular service that is being abused, I will +consider removing that service from my exit policy, which would prevent my +router from allowing that traffic to exit through it. I can only do this on a +IP+destination port basis, however. Common P2P and IRC ports are +already blocked. + +<p>You also have the option of blocking this IP and others on the Tor network +if you so desire. The Tor project provides a <a +href="http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/contrib/exitlist">python script</a> to +extract all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes, and an official <a +href="http://exitlist.torproject.org">DNSRBL</a> is also available to +determine if a given IP 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. + +</body> +</html> |