On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 13:56 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
In other words, am I contributing to the greater Tor network if I allow my USB Tor node to function while I'm sucking down a cappucino or two?
For the people that only route stuff like HTTP traffic through your Tor node, it will be a benefit. If I'm IRCing and get routed through your node, that's a different story (but it's no different than the bad old days of IIP where people dropped off by the dozens when someone shut down their computer). A Mixmaster remailer where the mail was transacted at public Internet access points would be much more useful. It would actually be funny if someone did this and named the node "starbuck". Anyway, as others have said, your node will only be able to function as middleman in such a setup, because by the time you register your IP will change unless you camp out in the Starbucks parking lot. Not that middleman is not useful, mind you (this applies to both Tor and Mixmaster). -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@speakeasy.net>