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diff --git a/files/tor-exit-notice.html b/files/tor-exit-notice.html deleted file mode 100644 index de3be174..00000000 --- a/files/tor-exit-notice.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,144 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0"?> -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> -<head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> -<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> - -<p style="text-align:center; font-size:xx-large; font-weight:bold">This is a -Tor Exit Router</p> - -<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="https://www.torproject.org/">Tor Anonymity Network</a>, which is -dedicated to <a href="https://www.torproject.org/about/overview">providing -privacy</a> to people who need it most: average computer users. This -router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless it has been -compromised.</p> - - -<!-- FIXME: you should probably grab your own copy of how_tor_works_thumb.png - and serve it locally --> - -<p style="text-align:center"> -<a href="https://www.torproject.org/about/overview"> -<img src="https://www.torproject.org/images/how_tor_works_thumb.png" alt="How Tor works" style="border-style:none"/> -</a></p> - -<p> -Tor sees use by <a href="https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers">many -important segments of the population</a>, 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. While Tor is not designed for malicious -computer users, it is true that they can use the network for malicious ends. -In reality however, the actual amount of <a -href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse">abuse</a> is quite low. This -is largely because criminals and hackers have significantly better access to -privacy and anonymity than do the regular users whom they prey upon. Criminals -can and do <a -href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_tools.html">build, -sell, and trade</a> far larger and <a -href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/08/web_fraud_20_distributing_your.html">more -powerful networks</a> than Tor on a daily basis. Thus, in the mind of this -operator, the social need for easily accessible censorship-resistant private, -anonymous communication trumps the risk of unskilled bad actors, who are -almost always more easily uncovered by traditional police work than by -extensive monitoring and surveillance anyway.</p> - -<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, and no single Tor node can determine both the origin and destination -of a given transmission.</p> - -<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 --> - -<p> -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>plus</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... --> - -<p> -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="https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-dmca-response">EFF's prepared -response</a> for more information on this matter.</p> - -<p>For more information, please consult the following documentation:</p> - -<ol> -<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/about/overview">Tor Overview</a></li> -<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse">Tor Abuse FAQ</a></li> -<li><a href="https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq">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 an -IP+destination port basis, however. Common P2P ports are -already blocked.</p> - -<p> -You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on -the Tor network if you so desire. The Tor project provides a <a -href="https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py">web service</a> -to fetch a list of all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes that allow exiting to a -specified IP:port combination, and an official <a -href="https://www.torproject.org/tordnsel/dist/">DNSRBL</a> is also available to -determine if a given IP address 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.</p> - -</body> -</html> |