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a34729ttoday at 9:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

So let me ask this: How hard is it to create a temporary exit node that is basically a rasberry pi with a sim card or wifi connection say from a cafe, or any other public wifi, ans are online for say na hour or two? If we had enough of these scattered around, would it matter?


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noidenttoday at 9:26 PM

> So let me ask this: How hard is it to create a temporary exit node that is basically a rasberry pi with a sim card or wifi connection say from a cafe, or any other public wifi, ans are online for say na hour or two?

It's not hard at all.

> If we had enough of these scattered around, would it matter?

No. Your relays won't be trusted with significant amounts of traffic until they've been up for a few weeks.

r3trohack3rtoday at 9:26 PM

The last time I looked into it, exit nodes have a long “ramp up” period of many days. If this is still true, you’re not going to be serving much purpose with a collection of transient nodes.

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