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en/faq-abuse.wml  13) <div class="sidebar-left">
en/faq-abuse.wml  14) <h3>Questions</h3>
en/faq-abuse.wml  15) <ul>
en/faq-abuse.wml  16) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#WhatAboutCriminals">Doesn't Tor enable criminals to do bad things?</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  17) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#DDoS">What about distributed denial of service attacks?</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  18) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#WhatAboutSpammers">What about spammers?</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  19) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#HowMuchAbuse">Does Tor get much abuse?</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  20) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#TypicalAbuses">So what should I expect if I run an exit relay?</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  21) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#IrcBans">Tor is banned from the IRC network I want to use.</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  22) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#SMTPBans">Your nodes are banned from the mail server I want to use.</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  23) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#Bans">I want to ban the Tor network from my service.</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  24) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#TracingUsers">I have a compelling reason to trace a Tor user. Can you help?</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  25) <li><a href="<page faq-abuse>#LegalQuestions">I have legal questions about Tor abuse.</a></li>
en/faq-abuse.wml  26) </ul>
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faq-abuse.html    31) <a id="WhatAboutCriminals"></a>
faq-abuse.html    32) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#WhatAboutCriminals">Doesn't Tor enable criminals to do bad things?</a></h3>
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faq-abuse.html    34) <p>Criminals can already do bad things. Since they're willing to
faq-abuse.html    35) break laws, they already have lots of options available that provide
faq-abuse.html    36) <em>better</em> privacy than Tor provides. They can steal cell phones,
faq-abuse.html    37) use them, and throw them in a ditch; they can crack into computers
faq-abuse.html    38) in Korea or Brazil and use them to launch abusive activities; they
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faq-abuse.html    39) can use spyware, viruses, and other techniques to take control of
faq-abuse.html    40) literally millions of Windows machines around the world. </p>
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faq-abuse.html    42) <p>Tor aims to provide protection for ordinary people who want to follow
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en/faq-abuse.wml  43) the law. Only criminals have privacy right now, and we need to fix that. </p>
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faq-abuse.html    45) <p>Some advocates of anonymity explain that it's just a tradeoff &mdash;
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en/faq-abuse.wml  46) accepting the bad uses for the good ones &mdash; but there's more to it
en/faq-abuse.wml  47) than that.
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faq-abuse.html    48) Criminals and other bad people have the motivation to learn how to
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faq-abuse.html    49) get good anonymity, and many have the motivation to pay well to achieve
faq-abuse.html    50) it. Being able to steal and reuse the identities of innocent victims
faq-abuse.html    51) (identify theft) makes it even easier. Normal people, on the other hand,
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en/faq-abuse.wml  52) don't have the time or money to spend figuring out how to get
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faq-abuse.html    53) privacy online. This is the worst of all possible worlds. </p>
faq-abuse.html    54) 
faq-abuse.html    55) <p>So yes, criminals could in theory use Tor, but they already have
faq-abuse.html    56) better options, and it seems unlikely that taking Tor away from the
faq-abuse.html    57) world will stop them from doing their bad things. At the same time, Tor
faq-abuse.html    58) and other privacy measures can <em>fight</em> identity theft, physical
faq-abuse.html    59) crimes like stalking, and so on. </p>
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faq-abuse.html    67) <a id="DDoS"></a>
faq-abuse.html    68) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#DDoS">What about distributed denial of service attacks?</a></h3>
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faq-abuse.html    70) <p>Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks typically rely on having a group
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faq-abuse.html    71) of thousands of computers all sending floods of traffic to a victim. Since
faq-abuse.html    72) the goal is to overpower the bandwidth of the victim, they typically send
faq-abuse.html    73) UDP packets since those don't require handshakes or coordination. </p>
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faq-abuse.html    75) <p>But because Tor only transports correctly formed TCP streams, not
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faq-abuse.html    76) all IP packets, you cannot send UDP packets over Tor. (You can't do
faq-abuse.html    77) specialized forms of this attack like SYN flooding either.) So ordinary
faq-abuse.html    78) DDoS attacks are not possible over Tor. Tor also doesn't allow bandwidth
faq-abuse.html    79) amplification attacks against external sites: you need to send in a byte
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faq-abuse.html    80) for every byte that the Tor network will send to your destination. So
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faq-abuse.html    81) in general, attackers who control enough bandwidth to launch an effective
faq-abuse.html    82) DDoS attack can do it just fine without Tor. </p>
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faq-abuse.html    84) <a id="WhatAboutSpammers"></a>
faq-abuse.html    85) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#WhatAboutSpammers">What about spammers?</a></h3>
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faq-abuse.html    87) <p>First of all, the default Tor exit policy rejects all outgoing
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faq-abuse.html    88) port 25 (SMTP) traffic. So sending spam mail through Tor isn't going to
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en/faq-abuse.wml  89) work by default. It's possible that some relay operators will enable
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faq-abuse.html    90) port 25 on their particular exit node, in which case that computer will
faq-abuse.html    91) allow outgoing mails; but that individual could just set up an open mail
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faq-abuse.html    92) relay too, independent of Tor. In short, Tor isn't useful for spamming,
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en/faq-abuse.wml  93) because nearly all Tor relays refuse to deliver the mail. </p>
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faq-abuse.html    95) <p>Of course, it's not all about delivering the mail. Spammers can use
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faq-abuse.html    96) Tor to connect to open HTTP proxies (and from there to SMTP servers); to
faq-abuse.html    97) connect to badly written mail-sending CGI scripts; and to control their
faq-abuse.html    98) botnets &mdash; that is, to covertly communicate with armies of
faq-abuse.html    99) compromised computers that deliver the spam.
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faq-abuse.html   100) </p>
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faq-abuse.html   102) <p>
faq-abuse.html   103) This is a shame, but notice that spammers are already doing great
faq-abuse.html   104) without Tor. Also, remember that many of their more subtle communication
faq-abuse.html   105) mechanisms (like spoofed UDP packets) can't be used over Tor, because
faq-abuse.html   106) it only transports correctly-formed TCP connections.
faq-abuse.html   107) </p>
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faq-abuse.html   109) <a id="ExitPolicies"></a>
faq-abuse.html   110) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#ExitPolicies">How do Tor exit policies work?</a></h3>
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faq-abuse.html   116) <a id="HowMuchAbuse"></a>
faq-abuse.html   117) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#HowMuchAbuse">Does Tor get much abuse?</a></h3>
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faq-abuse.html   119) <p>Not much, in the grand scheme of things. We've been running the network
faq-abuse.html   120) since October 2003, and it's only generated a handful of complaints. Of
faq-abuse.html   121) course, like all privacy-oriented networks on the net, we attract our
faq-abuse.html   122) share of jerks. Tor's exit policies help separate the role of "willing
faq-abuse.html   123) to donate resources to the network" from the role of "willing to deal
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faq-abuse.html   124) with exit abuse complaints," so we hope our network is more sustainable
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faq-abuse.html   125) than past attempts at anonymity networks. </p>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 127) <p>Since Tor has
en/faq-abuse.wml 128) <a href="<page overview>">many good uses as
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faq-abuse.html   129) well</a>, we feel that we're doing pretty well at striking a balance
faq-abuse.html   130) currently. </p>
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faq-abuse.html   132) <a id="TypicalAbuses"></a>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 133) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#TypicalAbuses">So what should I expect if I run an exit relay?</a></h3>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 135) <p>If you run a Tor relay that allows exit connections (such as the
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faq-abuse.html   136) default exit policy), it's probably safe to say that you will eventually
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faq-abuse.html   137) hear from somebody. Abuse
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faq-abuse.html   138) complaints may come in a variety of forms. For example: </p>
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abuse.html       139) <ul>
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faq-abuse.html   140) <li>Somebody connects to Hotmail, and sends a ransom note to a
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faq-abuse.html   141) company. The
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en/faq-abuse.wml 142) FBI sends you a polite email, you explain that you run a Tor relay,
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faq-abuse.html   143) and they say "oh well" and leave you alone. [Port 80]</li>
faq-abuse.html   144) <li>Somebody tries to get you shut down by using Tor to connect to Google
faq-abuse.html   145) groups and post spam to Usenet, and then sends an angry mail to
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faq-abuse.html   146) your ISP about how you're destroying the world. [Port 80]</li>
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faq-abuse.html   147) <li>Somebody connects to an IRC network and makes a nuisance of
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faq-abuse.html   148) himself. Your ISP gets polite mail about how your computer has been
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faq-abuse.html   149) compromised; and/or your computer gets DDoSed. [Port 6667]</li>
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faq-abuse.html   150) <li>Somebody uses Tor to download a Vin Diesel movie, and
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en/faq-abuse.wml 151) your ISP gets a DMCA takedown notice. See EFF's
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en/faq-abuse.wml 152) <a href="<page eff/tor-dmca-response>">Tor DMCA Response
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en/faq-abuse.wml 153) Template</a>, which explains why your ISP can probably ignore
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faq-abuse.html   154) the notice without any liability. [Arbitrary ports]</li>
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abuse.html       155) </ul>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 157) <p>You might also find that your Tor relay's IP is blocked from accessing
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faq-abuse.html   158) some Internet sites/services. This might happen regardless of your exit
faq-abuse.html   159) policy, because some groups don't seem to know or care that Tor has
faq-abuse.html   160) exit policies. (If you have a spare IP not used for other activities,
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en/faq-abuse.wml 161) you might consider running your Tor relay on it.) For example, </p>
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abuse.html       163) <ul>
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faq-abuse.html   164) <li>Because of a few cases of anonymous jerks messing with its web
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en/faq-abuse.wml 165) pages, Wikipedia is currently blocking many Tor relay IPs from writing
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faq-abuse.html   166) (reading still works). We're talking to Wikipedia about how they might
faq-abuse.html   167) control abuse while still providing access to anonymous contributors,
faq-abuse.html   168) who often have hot news or inside info on a topic but don't want to risk
faq-abuse.html   169) revealing their identities when publishing it (or don't want to reveal
faq-abuse.html   170) to local observers that they're accessing Wikipedia). Slashdot is also
faq-abuse.html   171) in the same boat.</li>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 173) <li>SORBS is putting some Tor relay IPs on their email
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faq-abuse.html   174) blacklist as well. They do this because they passively detect whether your
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en/faq-abuse.wml 175) relay connects to certain IRC networks, and they conclude from this that
en/faq-abuse.wml 176) your relay is capable of spamming. We tried to work with
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en/faq-abuse.wml 177) them to teach them that not all software works this way,
en/faq-abuse.wml 178) but we have given up. We recommend you avoid them, and <a
en/faq-abuse.wml 179) href="http://paulgraham.com/spamhausblacklist.html">teach your friends
en/faq-abuse.wml 180) (if they use them) to avoid abusive blacklists too</a>.</li>
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faq-abuse.html   185) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#IrcBans">Tor is banned from the IRC network I want to use.</a></h3>
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faq-abuse.html   187) <p>Sometimes jerks make use of Tor to troll IRC channels. This abuse
faq-abuse.html   188) results in IP-specific temporary bans ("klines" in IRC lingo), as the
faq-abuse.html   189) network operators try to keep the troll off of their network. </p>
faq-abuse.html   190) 
faq-abuse.html   191) <p>This response underscores a fundamental flaw in IRC's security model:
faq-abuse.html   192) they assume that IP addresses equate to humans, and by banning the
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faq-abuse.html   193) IP address they can ban the human. In reality this is not the case &mdash;
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faq-abuse.html   194) many such trolls routinely make use of the literally millions of open
faq-abuse.html   195) proxies and compromised computers around the Internet. The IRC networks
faq-abuse.html   196) are fighting a losing battle of trying to block all these nodes,
faq-abuse.html   197) and an entire cottage industry of blacklists and counter-trolls has
faq-abuse.html   198) sprung up based on this flawed security model (not unlike the antivirus
faq-abuse.html   199) industry). The Tor network is just a drop in the bucket here. </p>
faq-abuse.html   200) 
faq-abuse.html   201) <p>On the other hand, from the viewpoint of IRC server operators, security
faq-abuse.html   202) is not an all-or-nothing thing.  By responding quickly to trolls or
faq-abuse.html   203) any other social attack, it may be possible to make the attack scenario
faq-abuse.html   204) less attractive to the attacker.  And most individual IP addresses do
faq-abuse.html   205) equate to individual humans, on any given IRC network at any given time.
faq-abuse.html   206) The exceptions include NAT gateways which may be allocated access as
faq-abuse.html   207) special cases. While it's a losing battle to try to stop the use of open
faq-abuse.html   208) proxies, it's not generally a losing battle to keep klining a single
faq-abuse.html   209) ill-behaved IRC user until that user gets bored and goes away. </p>
faq-abuse.html   210) 
faq-abuse.html   211) <p>But the real answer is to implement application-level auth systems,
faq-abuse.html   212) to let in well-behaving users and keep out badly-behaving users. This
faq-abuse.html   213) needs to be based on some property of the human (such as a password he
faq-abuse.html   214) knows), not some property of the way his packets are transported. </p>
faq-abuse.html   215) 
faq-abuse.html   216) <p>Of course, not all IRC networks are trying to ban Tor nodes. After
faq-abuse.html   217) all, quite a few people use Tor to IRC in privacy in order to carry
faq-abuse.html   218) on legitimate communications without tying them to their real-world
faq-abuse.html   219) identity. Each IRC network needs to decide for itself if blocking a few
faq-abuse.html   220) more of the millions of IPs that bad people can use is worth losing the
faq-abuse.html   221) contributions from the well-behaved Tor users. </p>
faq-abuse.html   222) 
faq-abuse.html   223) <p>If you're being blocked, have a discussion with the network operators
faq-abuse.html   224) and explain the issues to them. They may not be aware of the existence of
faq-abuse.html   225) Tor at all, or they may not be aware that the hostnames they're klining
faq-abuse.html   226) are Tor exit nodes.  If you explain the problem, and they conclude that
faq-abuse.html   227) Tor ought to be blocked, you may want to consider moving to a network that
faq-abuse.html   228) is more open to free speech.  Maybe inviting them to #tor on irc.oftc.net
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faq-abuse.html   229) will help show them that we are not all evil people. </p>
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faq-abuse.html   230) 
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faq-abuse.html   231) <p>Finally, if you become aware of an IRC network that seems to be
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faq-abuse.html   232) blocking Tor, or a single Tor exit node, please put that information on <a
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en/faq-abuse.wml 233) href="https://wiki.torproject.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/BlockingIrc">The Tor
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faq-abuse.html   234) IRC block tracker</a>
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faq-abuse.html   235) so that others can share.  At least one IRC network consults that page
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faq-abuse.html   236) to unblock exit nodes that have been blocked inadvertently. </p>
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faq-abuse.html   238) <a id="SMTPBans"></a>
faq-abuse.html   239) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#SMTPBans">Your nodes are banned from the mail server I want to use.</a></h3>
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abuse.html       240) 
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faq-abuse.html   241) <p>Even though <a href="#WhatAboutSpammers">Tor isn't useful for
faq-abuse.html   242) spamming</a>, some over-zealous blacklisters seem to think that all
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faq-abuse.html   243) open networks like Tor are evil &mdash; they attempt to strong-arm network
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faq-abuse.html   244) administrators on policy, service, and routing issues, and then extract
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faq-abuse.html   245) ransoms from victims. </p>
faq-abuse.html   246) 
faq-abuse.html   247) <p>If your server administrators decide to make use of these
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faq-abuse.html   248) blacklists to refuse incoming mail, you should have a conversation with
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faq-abuse.html   249) them and explain about Tor and Tor's exit policies. </p>
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faq-abuse.html   251) <a id="Bans"></a>
faq-abuse.html   252) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Bans">I want to ban the Tor network from my service.</a></h3>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 254) <p>We're sorry to hear that. There are some situations where it makes
en/faq-abuse.wml 255) sense to block anonymous users for an Internet service. But in many
en/faq-abuse.wml 256) cases, there are easier solutions that can solve your problem while
en/faq-abuse.wml 257) still allowing users to access your website securely.</p>
en/faq-abuse.wml 258) 
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faq-abuse.html   259) <p>First, ask yourself if there's a way to do application-level decisions
faq-abuse.html   260) to separate the legitimate users from the jerks. For example, you might
faq-abuse.html   261) have certain areas of the site, or certain privileges like posting,
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en/faq-abuse.wml 262) available only to people who are registered. It's easy to build an
en/faq-abuse.wml 263) up-to-date list of Tor IP addresses that allow connections to your
en/faq-abuse.wml 264) service, so you could set up this distinction only for Tor users. This
en/faq-abuse.wml 265) way you can have multi-tiered access and not have to ban every aspect
en/faq-abuse.wml 266) of your service. </p>
en/faq-abuse.wml 267) 
en/faq-abuse.wml 268) <p>For example, the <a
en/faq-abuse.wml 269) href="http://freenode.net/policy.shtml#tor">Freenode IRC network</a>
en/faq-abuse.wml 270) had a problem with a coordinated group of abusers joining channels and
en/faq-abuse.wml 271) subtly taking over the conversation; but when they labelled all users
en/faq-abuse.wml 272) coming from Tor nodes as "anonymous users," removing the ability of the
en/faq-abuse.wml 273) abusers to blend in, the abusers moved back to using their open proxies
en/faq-abuse.wml 274) and bot networks. </p>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 276) <p>Second, consider that hundreds of thousands of
en/faq-abuse.wml 277) people use Tor every day simply for
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en/faq-abuse.wml 278) good data hygiene &mdash; for example, to protect against data-gathering
en/faq-abuse.wml 279) advertising companies while going about their normal activities. Others
en/faq-abuse.wml 280) use Tor because it's their only way to get past restrictive local
en/faq-abuse.wml 281) firewalls. Some Tor users may be legitimately connecting
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faq-abuse.html   282) to your service right now to carry on normal activities. You need to
faq-abuse.html   283) decide whether banning the Tor network is worth losing the contributions
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en/faq-abuse.wml 284) of these users, as well as potential future legitimate users. (Often
en/faq-abuse.wml 285) people don't have a good measure of how many polite Tor users are
en/faq-abuse.wml 286) connecting to their service &mdash; you never notice them until there's
en/faq-abuse.wml 287) an impolite one.)</p>
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faq-abuse.html   289) <p>At this point, you should also ask yourself what you do about other
faq-abuse.html   290) services that aggregate many users behind a few IP addresses. Tor is
faq-abuse.html   291) not so different from AOL in this respect.</p>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 293) <p>Lastly, please remember that Tor relays have <a
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en/faq-abuse.wml 294) href="<page faq>#ExitPolicies">individual exit policies</a>. Many Tor relays do
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en/faq-abuse.wml 295) not allow exiting connections at all. Many of those that do allow some
en/faq-abuse.wml 296) exit connections might already disallow connections to
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faq-abuse.html   297) your service. When you go about banning nodes, you should parse the
faq-abuse.html   298) exit policies and only block the ones that allow these connections;
faq-abuse.html   299) and you should keep in mind that exit policies can change (as well as
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en/faq-abuse.wml 300) the overall list of nodes in the network).</p>
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faq-abuse.html   302) <p>If you really want to do this, we provide a
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en/faq-abuse.wml 303) <a href="https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py">Tor
en/faq-abuse.wml 304) exit relay list</a> or a
en/faq-abuse.wml 305) <a href="<page tordnsel/index>">DNS-based list you can query</a>.
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faq-abuse.html   306) </p>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 308) <p>
en/faq-abuse.wml 309) (Some system administrators block ranges of IP addresses because of
en/faq-abuse.wml 310) official policy or some abuse pattern, but some have also asked about
en/faq-abuse.wml 311) whitelisting Tor exit relays because they want to permit access to their
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en/faq-abuse.wml 312) systems only using Tor. These scripts are usable for whitelisting as well.)
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en/faq-abuse.wml 313) </p>
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faq-abuse.html   315) <a id="TracingUsers"></a>
faq-abuse.html   316) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#TracingUsers">I have a compelling reason to trace a Tor user. Can you help?</a></h3>
faq-abuse.html   317) 
faq-abuse.html   318) <p>
faq-abuse.html   319) There is nothing the Tor developers can do to trace Tor users. The same
faq-abuse.html   320) protections that keep bad people from breaking Tor's anonymity also
faq-abuse.html   321) prevent us from figuring out what's going on.
faq-abuse.html   322) </p>
faq-abuse.html   323) 
faq-abuse.html   324) <p>
faq-abuse.html   325) Some fans have suggested that we redesign Tor to include a <a
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en/faq-abuse.wml 326) href="<page faq>#Backdoor">backdoor</a>.
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faq-abuse.html   327) There are two problems with this idea. First, it technically weakens the
faq-abuse.html   328) system too far. Having a central way to link users to their activities
faq-abuse.html   329) is a gaping hole for all sorts of attackers; and the policy mechanisms
faq-abuse.html   330) needed to ensure correct handling of this responsibility are enormous
faq-abuse.html   331) and unsolved. Second, the bad people <a href="#WhatAboutCriminals">aren't
faq-abuse.html   332) going to get caught by this anyway</a>, since they will use other means
faq-abuse.html   333) to ensure their anonymity (identity theft, compromising computers and
faq-abuse.html   334) using them as bounce points, etc).
faq-abuse.html   335) </p>
faq-abuse.html   336) 
faq-abuse.html   337) <p>
faq-abuse.html   338) But remember that this doesn't mean that Tor is invulnerable. Traditional
faq-abuse.html   339) police techniques can still be very effective against Tor, such as
faq-abuse.html   340) interviewing suspects, surveillance and keyboard taps, writing style
faq-abuse.html   341) analysis, sting operations, and other physical investigations.
faq-abuse.html   342) </p>
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faq-abuse.html   344) <a id="LegalQuestions"></a>
faq-abuse.html   345) <h3><a class="anchor" href="#LegalQuestions">I have legal questions about Tor abuse.</a></h3>
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faq-abuse.html   347) <p>We're only the developers. We can answer technical questions, but
faq-abuse.html   348) we're not the ones to talk to about legal questions or concerns. </p>
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en/faq-abuse.wml 350) <p>Please take a look at the
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en/faq-abuse.wml 351) <a href="<page eff/tor-legal-faq>">Tor Legal FAQ</a>,
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faq-abuse.html   352) and contact EFF directly if you have any further legal questions. </p>
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