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On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 01:22:01PM -0500, Nathan Freitas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, at 03:46 PM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote:
> > My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both
> > security and usability. It further opens new possibilities for expanding
> > the Tor-network and can provide a stable source of income for the
> > Tor-project.
> > Wrote an article about this on my blog:
> > https://hoevenstein.nl/thoughts-on-tor-router-hardware
> 
> Thanks for the sober, thoughtful post. There are definitely advantages
> to the hardware-isolated TorSocks mode for sure, which I think have been
> lost with some of the poor implementations out there and focus on the
> Transparent proxy type setup.

Indeed.

Other useful reading on this topic:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-October/005541.html

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-October/005544.html

--Roger

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