are there any potential dangers in running this? like someone downloading CSAM through my connection? would love to help with bandwidth, but legal troubles are quite scary..
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I was also wondering this. There's some info here specifically https://forum.torproject.org/t/are-there-any-risks-to-running-standalone-snowflake-on-home-network-if-so-how-significant-are-they/16710/5
thanks! i guess it's pretty safe.
It is, but the sad reality is that while you contribute your capacity for good cause it'll be abused by bad actors as well. Obviously with snowflake node you don't get to see what's excactly going trough, but some time ago I had exit node running and I got several calls from my ISP that there's malicious traffic coming from my IP address. ISP managed it pretty well when I explained what's going on but eventually they got so many complaints from other peers on the network that they took 'hard route' and told that they'll take my connection down unless I shut down the node. No hard feelings for the ISP, they took all the abuse mails and other annoyance for me and I absolutely understand their decision. But it's good to at least acknowledge that tor isn't just to get around oppressive policies.
It makes me so happy when I see someone is using my snowflake proxy
You can also just donate! They even have merch if you want some of your money going that direction
You could even do both if you are feeling really generous
That link for orbot doesn't go anywhere. At least for me. A bunch of qr codes - 3 of which 404. None get to a download.
The fdroid link 404s.
Anyway, here's the current release for android
https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo/orbot-latest.apk
If you run Linux you can run it - you don't need a dedicated server. You can config to your specs. See here https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/
sudo apt install snowflake
or snowflake-proxy for just the server On debian/Ubuntu.
Termux can run the proxy using the same command
pkg install snowflake-proxy
And here's the official site
https://snowflake.torproject.org/
Ironic, though, they don't use the snowflake widget on their own site
But you can just open this page in any browser https://snowflake.torproject.org/embed.html
I already do it on my browser and I get dopamine hit everytime I see the number count go up but I didn’t know about the mobile app, about to do it right now.