[Fsuk-manchester] MFS Tor node

[Mark Reynolds]

What do people think of setting up a MFS Tor node in Mad Lab to show
in a practical way how free software can help foster freedoms? With
Internet censorship and recently the threat to secure communications
on Blackberrys by a number of countries and talk of a crack down on
Wikileaks privacy -enhancing software that helps protect whistle
blowers, human rights advocates, etc is more important than ever.

As I'm sure you're aware this technology helps a lot of people in all
kinds of situations
https://www.torproject.org/torusers.html.en
makes interesting reading.

There is a potential for abuse but this is fairly low anyway and the
exit policies can be configured with bandwidth limits and what
services to allow e.g. POP3, SSL, etc.

In terms of the type of node bridges use less bandwidth and are
important in allowing people in countries with censored Internet to
get on the Tor network. Relays increase the speed of Tor overall and
exit nodes are always in demand.
https://www.torproject.org/faq.html.en#RelayOrBridge

Hardware wise it could be run on an old donated computer. Assuming Mad
Lab or someone else would be willing to provide a home for it it
should be fairly straight-forward to setup.

What are people's thoughts and opinions on this?

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