What makes it legal or not is what you do, why you do it and what you do with it. Law is different from policy and contract. And they often do not fully line up or cover the same things. And LE is different from prosecution/defense, from judge, from jury, from law school and on the street.
> Is monitoring Tor traffic at an exit legal? The question is not specific enough, so no one can answer it. > Since the traffic passes "my" computer, seems of > course I can monitor it or even change it. Ditto. > When people set up a Tor exit, is there any policy from > Tor governing the behavior of the operators? The project site, people here, users and other operators all have similar expectations. Some transgressions result in node blockage. Some operators do whatever they want as some things are unknowable or unenforceable. > When people set up a Tor exit... Is there any legal liability? Operators may for various reasons be raided, sued, or shut down. That has it's own problems. So far in the USA, due to the various exceptions available to operators, there are no known cases where the operator was found guilty or liable. Criminal guilt is different from civil liability. > I don't bother with modifying somebody's traffic. Some modifications are legal, some are not. > Basically, you are saying once we run exits, the computers > are not our own computers any more: Ownership is not the same as models of use. You have different limitations and permissions with different usage. > Tor exit operators == ISP, from the perspective of laws. Generally yes. Note also any TOU/AUP/Privacy contract. > What if somebody attacks my computer running a Tor exit > via Tor? I have to call police since I cannot check the > content of the attack traffic? This question is not specific enough for anyone to answer. There are cases where you may look at content, or not. And cases to file criminal, civil, or not. Read the site, websearch for general presentations, bring specific questions to proper counsel. Especially before teaching others based on anything us laymen say you can or cannot legally do. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
