I wrote off Tor a while ago. It seemed to me that 95% of people who wanted to be anonymous were up to something bad. Spammers, hackers, and child predators all seem to love Tor. But all of the talk about Iran and their attempts to silent dissent by blocking popular Internet sites got me thinking: what they need is Tor.

I kind of want to grab a cheap 1U machine and colocate it as a Tor exit node. I blogged before about some good bandwidth deals; 10 Mbps unmetered can be had for $39/month. It seems that Tor nodes can attract a lot of complaints due to bad users, though. Though it’s worth noting that Tor expected this and has some prepared documentation on how to deal with it. The question is whether the host would tolerate it, and whether I want the headache.

Actually, besides the fact that I don’t really want to pay $39/month for something that wouldn’t benefit me any, this post is making me reconsider. Of course it’s from the UK which seems to be rapidly turning into Big Brother, but it’s not as if the same thing couldn’t happen here in the US.

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