Oh damn, I didnt even think of the fact that someone could be bouncing off of my IP address and visiting who knows what sites.
Ill have to think twice about using it now.

Originally posted by Animatrix
Oh damn, I didnt even think of the fact that someone could be bouncing off of my IP address and visiting who knows what sites.
Ill have to think twice about using it now.

You misunderstood it.

This feature must be explicitly enabled, it is OFF by default. If you just install it and use it for browsing the sites then nobody will be using your IP address for anything.

I tried it and deleted it because as soon as I signed on to TOR I had 20 hits a second on my IP address. even after exiting TOR. Maybe if they put a feature in like p2p where you can throttle the amount of traffic allowed to be bouncing off of your IP address it would be something that could go unnoticed by your ISP but with that much traffic I believe your ISP would take notice of the rise in traffic and investigate the source of it. They did that with people using p2p sharing and they got targeted for piracy from the movie and music industries. I hate to think of who would target you with large amounts of TOR traffic. And the bad thing is you are not even the source of all the traffic and I personally did'nt see anything worth going on TOR for. Seems they just want to draw as many people as they can in so they can have a larger pool of IPs to bounce off of.

Seems they just want to draw as many people as they can in so they can have a larger pool of IPs to bounce off of.

Sorry but your posting sounds like spreading FUD. You are making things up that are simply not true.

Bouncing is OFF by default, you won't have any traffic unless you explicitly enable it. By default it acts as a client only and won't route anyone's traffic through your IP.

And if you decide to enable the routing feature you can of course throttle the traffic as in any other p2p application too. You can furthermore control whether it should act as exit or as middleman only and if you want to be an exit you have very fine grained control over which ports and which IP addresses you want to allow from your exit and which ones to block.

This means you can forward traffic as a middleman WITHOUT allowing exiting at your IP. This mode is safe to use for anyone, neither providers nor law enforcement care about it because it is PERFECTLY LEGAL unless you are in China or Iran.

You should read the help files that come with it and also the documentation on the project home page and not judge it solely from this thread alone or from the things that somebody simply makes up because he did not read the manual about how it works and is supposed to be used.

Tor is actually a good thing, the developers are on OUR side and not on THEIRS and there is no reason for speculations what the Tor-project might want to achieve, they are open and honest about their goals and about how the system works and if you have doubts then all code is open for anybody to inspect and to see what it really does and how it works.

There are no secrets in the Tor-Project, its all open.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people have heard of this

Originally posted by JBA2848
I noticed this site that has a large list of ips using tore nodes and is updated every hour. Not sure what to think. I thought tor hid all this information.

These are the public relays. Volunteers run them intentionally and also publish their location intentionally.

The Tor network consists of a few thousand enthusiasts (like me) who run these public relays that route the traffic from node to node and millions of users all over the world can then use these relays to evade the censorship.

The users who use Tor don't publish anything and don't accept incoming connections and thus won't show up in any list. Even the ones who run hidden websites are connected as normal users, not as relays.

So I've noticed that this thread is pretty dead now... I've been bumping around the .onion world and have yet to come across anything conspiracy related. Does anyone have at least one .onion site for conspiracy?

first time i heard of this

Any evidence of things such as:

People / slave trade
Underground fights to the death
Seriously disturbing video sites for murder etc uploaded and made by the posters themselves?

This has kicked off on many forums now, seen some very disturbing screenshots, eg how to kidnap, top ten ways to murder a woman etc

Sick stuff indeed