Planning to buy a rope for a noose . <| sep |> I think people wanted to leave East Germany for reasons described here , like not being able to buy stuff you need , having children just so you can get housing , have to join the FDJ to get decent job or education , riddled with secret police , etc . They didn ' t want to leave to go sight seeing in Paris , you are right about that . They wanted to leave because it basically sucked , in a lot of ways . So sorry , analogy is totally off . I ' m not buying this sheer possibility stuff for running nodes . Let ' s ask when it is important to run your own node , what is the security trade off , should it come for free , or might paying a bit extra for a larger hard drive be the price you have to pay for more security ?