On 4/9/16, Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:14:18AM +0000, Alfie John wrote:
My explanation is they don't want to do it.
You only need to raid a single exit node loudly to scare off the rest...
Hm, are you sure? IIRC at least several exit nodes have been raided.
Come on, it's the principle! When you're one convict prison commander with 1000 convicts and only three guards, how do you control them in a god forsaken outback post like early colonial Australia? When one plays up, you flog someone else, someone who didn't actually do anything wrong, someone random. Then they self police. Call it tall poppy or some better name, but the goal is the point - intimidation and self censorship, self policing, avoidance of the possible problem etc, of those who would stand up and be counted e.g. by running a Tor exit node in the pursuit of freedoms and liberty. In this modern, civilized, respectable age <ahem>, the arthorratays can only get away with so much random punishment, but they still try, creating an environment of "guilty until you prove your own damn innocence", "we will randomly raid you even though we know your Tor exit node is a common carrier, and if you don't hand over your passwords immediately for our infestigation we WILL make your life a living hell" and variations on the theme. You have freedoms and rights and inviolable protections, only within the limits of the interests of the power elite/ bankers/ government/ military industrial complex of the day.