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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 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.
For more information, please consult the following documentation:
1. Tor Overview
2. Tor Abuse FAQ
3. Tor Legal FAQ
That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may email
the maintainer.
