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Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I don't get how they intended to make money by running a relay? What was the business plan here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's crypto, you can't understand it unless you already believe in it.

From the outside, blockchain looks like a spread sheet that's so difficult to edit, you have to turn it into a slot-machine to incentivize people to try. But I don't understand blockchain.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Selling the data, presumably

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What data? Tor is designed in a way you don't have any useable data if you don't control a significant portion of the network. And even if they could control it, how much is that data worth anyways? ISPs don't get rich selling traffic data afaik. Blackmail maybe?