I think that's part of the joke
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Andrea Shepard <and...@torproject.org>wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:27:22AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > On 8/30/13, Andrea Shepard <and...@torproject.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:08:34AM -0500, Jon Gardner wrote: > > >> Then why have exit policies? Exit nodes regularly block "unwelcome" > > >> traffic > > >> like bittorrent, and there's only a slight functional difference > between > > >> that > > >> and using a filter in front of the node to block things like porn > > > > > > There's a considerable functional difference: an exit policy is a > defined > > > list of specific hosts and ports to accept/reject, and it's advertised > in > > > the exit's descriptor. Your client can just pick a different exit node > > > if the connection it wants to make is not permitted by a given exit's > > > policy. > > > A "porn filter" is inherently fuzzy and unpredictable, so couldn't be > > > implemented without breaking clients trying to use that node. > Filtering > > > traffic other than as declared by your exit policy should and will get > your > > > exit the BadExit flag. > > > > > > This is why we need to implement extended exit flags for exits that want > > to run post-exit filtering/enhancement policies, say for example > > "noporn" > > that way we can get all the religious groups dumping their tithes into > > not just beaming reruns of the 700 club around the world, but a pile of > > uber fast exits too. > > What a disastrous notion; the exit policy system works because clients can > predict in advance whether an exit will pass a given connection; it depends > only on the destination host/port. That could never be the case for any > of these. > > > And how about > > "novirus" delivered by microsoft > > "doublesyourcoins" propped up by the donations of fools > > "trusted" run by legit governments > > Oh, please, do tell where you expect to find a 'legit' government and why > one should 'trust' it? > > -- > Andrea Shepard > <and...@torproject.org> > PGP fingerprint (ECC): BDF5 F867 8A52 4E4A BECF DE79 A4FF BC34 F01D D536 > PGP fingerprint (RSA): 3611 95A4 0740 ED1B 7EA5 DF7E 4191 13D9 D0CF BDA5 > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > >
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