<story><title>Tor Challenge</title><url>https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwintermutex</author><text>I would like to run a Tor exit-relay, but I am too afraid to do this, as I live in a what used to be liberal western country called &amp;quot;the Netherlands&amp;quot;. Where the police sometimes raid Tor exit-relays on purpose, to discourage people from helping Tor [1].&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trip-report-tor-trainings-dutch-and-belgian-police&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.torproject.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;trip-report-tor-trainings-d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ihmahr</author><text>Dutch person here. I operate two 10MB exit relays from my home, where I live with my family. Have been doing this for a year now, never had any real problems. My ISP is SurfNet. Also xs4all said today that they would permit exit relays: &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/xs4all/statuses/474514247222067200&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;xs4all&amp;#x2F;statuses&amp;#x2F;474514247222067200&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, Dutch police has never actually raided a private domicile where there was an exit relay.&lt;p&gt;One advantage to running an exit relay from your home is that there is a lot of garbage traffic coming from your address, which I really like because it hides me a little bit more.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tor Challenge</title><url>https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwintermutex</author><text>I would like to run a Tor exit-relay, but I am too afraid to do this, as I live in a what used to be liberal western country called &amp;quot;the Netherlands&amp;quot;. Where the police sometimes raid Tor exit-relays on purpose, to discourage people from helping Tor [1].&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trip-report-tor-trainings-dutch-and-belgian-police&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.torproject.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;trip-report-tor-trainings-d...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>luxpir</author><text>The comments there took a dark turn very quickly. Shame the thread&amp;#x27;s closed, with no counterpoints offered before doing so.&lt;p&gt;See also these two independent reports, one written, one an audio recording of a presentation, by a Dutch activist I happened across:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://raided4tor.cryto.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;raided4tor.cryto.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; [text]&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/OHM2013-Partyvan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;OHM2013-Partyvan&lt;/a&gt; [audio]&lt;p&gt;EDIT: To sum up, the activist advises that activism is not something to be taken lightly, and there is a real cost to being targeted by law enforcement. I know relays are different to exits, but it&amp;#x27;s not encouraging when you want to assist!</text></comment>