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THIS IS A TOR EXIT ROUTER

Most likely you are accessing this website because you had some issue with the
traffic coming from this IP. This router is part of the Tor Anonymity Network,
which is dedicated to providing privacy to people who need it most: average
computer users. This router IP should be generating no other traffic, unless it
has been compromised.

Tor works by running user traffic through a random chain of encrypted servers,
and then letting the traffic exit the Tor network through an exit node like this
one. This design makes it very hard for a service to know which user is
connecting to it, since it can only see the IP-address of the Tor exit node:

Read more about how Tor works.

Illustration showing how a user might connect to a service through the Tor
network. The user first sends their data through three daisy-chained encrypted
Tor servers that may exist on different continents. Then the last Tor server in
the chain connects to the target service over the normal internet. The user This
server Your service Tor encrypted link Unencrypted link

Tor sees use by many important segments of the population, including whistle
blowers, journalists, Chinese dissidents skirting the Great Firewall and
oppressive censorship, abuse victims, stalker targets, the US military, and law
enforcement, just to name a few. While Tor is not designed for malicious
computer users, it is true that they can use the network for malicious ends. In
reality however, the actual amount of abuse is quite low. This is largely
because criminals and hackers have significantly better access to privacy and
anonymity than do the regular users whom they prey upon. Criminals can and do
build, sell, and trade far larger and more powerful networks than Tor on a daily
basis. Thus, in the mind of this operator, the social need for easily accessible
censorship-resistant private, anonymous communication trumps the risk of
unskilled bad actors, who are almost always more easily uncovered by traditional
police work than by extensive monitoring and surveillance anyway.

In terms of applicable law, the best way to understand Tor is to consider it a
network of routers operating as common carriers, much like the Internet
backbone. However, unlike the Internet backbone routers, Tor routers explicitly
do not contain identifiable routing information about the source of a packet,
and no single Tor node can determine both the origin and destination of a given
transmission.

As such, there is little the operator of this router can do to help you track
the connection further. This router maintains no logs of any of the Tor traffic,
so there is little that can be done to trace either legitimate or illegitimate
traffic (or to filter one from the other). Attempts to seize this router will
accomplish nothing.

A Tor relay is a simple data carrier (mere conduit) in the terms of Article 12
of the european directive 2000/31/EC of 8 June 2000: we do not initiate the
transmissions, we do not select the receiver of the transmission, and we do not
select or modify the information contained in the transmission. Therefore, we
are not liable for the information transmitted.
Amendment of directive 2000/31/EC: CHAPTER II, Article 4, ‘Mere conduit’ - the
Digital Services Act (DSA) Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of 19 October 2022

As a German organization, we fully comply with
Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz §9 (the German telemedia
data protection law), which prohibits to log any personally identifiable data or
usage data unless required for billing purposes. As we do not charge for using
our services, we will never be able to keep any connection data.

Tor routers owned by German media services are protected by Article 4
Digital-Services-Act

For more information, please consult the following documentation:

 * Tor Overview
 * Tor Abuse FAQ
 * Tor Legal FAQ

That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may email
the maintainer. If complaints are related to a particular service that is being
abused, I will consider removing that service from my exit policy, which would
prevent my router from allowing that traffic to exit through it. I can only do
this on an IP+destination port basis, however.

You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on the Tor
network if you so desire. The Tor project provides a web service to fetch a list
of all IP addresses of Tor exit nodes that allow exiting to a specified IP:port
combination, and an official DNSRBL is also available to determine if a given IP
address is actually a Tor exit server. Please be considerate when using these
options. It would be unfortunate to deny all Tor users access to your site
indefinitely simply because of a few bad apples.

All ForPrivacyNET Tor Relays are privately funded out of my own pocket.

In the unlikely event that someone wants to contribute to the monthly network
traffic and server costs so that even more new exit relays can be set up,
donations can be sent to Monero address:

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OpenAlias donate.for-privacy.net or donate@for-privacy.net can be used for
simplification and to avoid mistakes. If you want to donate other
cryptocurrencies, just ask.
I recently happened to see that someone has donated something for the 1st time.
A funny "1337" amount ;-)

A big thank you:

These Tor exits at Community-IX are only possible because of the many sponsors
there and the IN-Berlin team who work on a voluntary basis.
Nifty creatures have given me IP ranges and F3 Netze admin assisted with the
Ripe entries.