On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 15:51 +0100, tagnaq wrote: > No you do not need to exclude them because your client will not use > nodes with the BadExit flag as an exit node anyway. The torstatus > website does not flag them, it just shows you that they have this flag > because the DirectoryAuthorities flagged these nodes as badexits. Now I'm even more confused! What is "DirectoryAuthorities"? Quick googling yielded no results I can understand and Tor -alpha Manual is not helpful on that matter either. Could you point me somewhere I can find more informations about matters relating to exit nodes? I'm going through archives of this mailing list and documents on Tor website but there is *a lot* of informations in those places and it will take me considerable amount of time to read all of it. How someone can recognise if an exit node *might* be doing something suspicious - like sniffing traffic for passwords? As far as I can tell (with my limited knowledge that is!) it's by checking which ports the node in question is making available. And if there are not the standards one then it *could* do something nasty - which of course don't mean it does. Could you clarify this whole "rouge/bad/evil" nodes matter? -- Tomasz Moskal <ramshackle.industries@xxxxxxxxx> Encrypted mail preferred. Key ID: 2C323C82
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