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0 pointsNux12y ago0 comments

Tor's cause is a noble one, but I fear it will end up (if it hasn't already) being used mostly by bad people for bad things.

Once you get your home or server IPs connected to black market forums, drugs, human trafficking or kiddie porn sites and your life (and your family's) has suddenly become more complicated, I wonder how many will still be eager to run Tor exit nodes? Maybe a few dreamers and anarchists.

Tor exits will be shut down one by one, either by the owners or by the police/state.

What we need to come up with is a fully encrypted, anonymous, self-contained super-internet of something like Tor "hidden services" only.

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nly12y ago

None of the nefarious services and use cases you list require the presence of exit nodes. Silk Road, for instance, is a hidden service. Obviously I don't know about the rest, but you'd have to pretty stupid to put such things on the public internet.

The only people who suffer from the loss of Tor exit nodes are the 'more genuine' or 'more worthy' users who need to use it to escape oppression, or state monitoring.

NuxOP12y ago

Exactly, the people who need it "the most" will prolly be left without it at some point. From the comments I see for a proper "dark net" we now can choose between Tor (without exit nodes) and I2P, this is actually great news.

tuxed12y ago

I2P

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