From aea8c9a703c90934793e2b0fd95ef5bb8e222270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Schlinkert Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:04:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fix link to other tor posts Just noticed that in this blog post you link to `blog/categories/tor/` but the correct URL appears to be `blog/tags/tor/`. Thanks for your posts! Hopefully this will help others find them more easily. --- .../04/05/what-happens-when-tor-exit-nodes-break-bad/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blog/2016/04/05/what-happens-when-tor-exit-nodes-break-bad/index.html b/blog/2016/04/05/what-happens-when-tor-exit-nodes-break-bad/index.html index 2ff6556d..d61cad92 100644 --- a/blog/2016/04/05/what-happens-when-tor-exit-nodes-break-bad/index.html +++ b/blog/2016/04/05/what-happens-when-tor-exit-nodes-break-bad/index.html @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@

What Happens When Tor Exit Nodes Break Bad?

Introduction

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When looking at how Tor works, we’ve looked at the various types of nodes that make up the Tor network. However, you’ll notice that we haven’t dealt too much with exit nodes. Exit nodes are the final link in a Tor “circuit”, or path from the client to the server. Since exit nodes send data to the final destination, they can see the data as if it had just left the device.

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When looking at how Tor works, we’ve looked at the various types of nodes that make up the Tor network. However, you’ll notice that we haven’t dealt too much with exit nodes. Exit nodes are the final link in a Tor “circuit”, or path from the client to the server. Since exit nodes send data to the final destination, they can see the data as if it had just left the device.

This visibility puts quite a bit of trust in exit nodes and, for the most part, they tend to act responsibly. However, this isn’t always the case. This post will take a look at what happens when a Tor exit node operator decides to “break bad” and wreak havoc on Tor users1.