![]() ![]() This would also ultimately make it easier for them to be the subject of targeted attacks. Furthermore whomever was distributing the unpublished list of exits could "poison" users to track their tor usage. ![]() A user who only ever uses a small set of unlisted exits could ultimately end up linking all of their tor traffic to a single, trackable entity. Tor's protection comes from the ability to hide in a crowd, all tor users are as likely to have exited from a specific exit as any other user. If users were given a small set of unlisted exits to use it would harm their anonymity.It is beneficial to the people or entities operating tor relays that allow exiting to be able to advertise the fact that this is what they're doing in an open and public way, it provides them with some protection from legal repercussions from the activities that people perform over the tor network though their relays.The reasons for exits being known universally are two-fold: They are simply private guards which are not listed in the tor consensus to make it harder for a censor to know that it is a tor node, after the first hop to the bridge, tor operates as it would normally. Bridges only serve as entry points to the network, their purpose is to get you onto the tor network through potentially uncensored means. ![]()
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