This is great news! Mozilla just began hosting middle relays a few days ago as well. Facebook just set up a hidden service to allow Tor users to access Facebook entirely within Tor. It's been a good week for the folks over at Tor.
- "Advertised Bandwidth 3.3 MB/s", what does it mean and can it be
increased?
As we do not set any advertised bandwidth in our configuration, the value in Atlas is the bandwidth observed by the network. We are still in a ramp-up phase and going to continue being so for until approximately the end of 2014. Read https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay for more. We do not plan to set an bandwidth limit at this point, either in the Tor configuration or externally, in our network.
I would highly recommend the lifecycle blog post that was linked to for anyone wanting to understand the statistics mentioned in Atlas.
If anyone has any questions about any of the information listed in Atlas, you are welcome to shoot them my way as well. I'd be happy to answer them or find someone who can.
- I see in puppet that there is at least some logging enabled. What is
being logged and why? "The best policy is to keep no logs." https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OperationalSecurity#MinimizeDataRetention
What logs are you referring to? If you're referring to "Log notice /var/log/tor/tor.log" then this just logs statistics, nothing else. torrc's manpage says on the matter: "[w]e advise using "notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose may provide sensitive information to an attacker who obtains the logs". We do not keep traffic/usage logs in any way nor are we planning to.
By default Tor doesn't keep any meaningful logs and the folks at the Tor project get very upset if you change that, for obvious reasons.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
Sidenote: I've just a few days ago been laid off. My last day at this job will be on Friday, at which point I will be re-subscribing to this list using the email address zellfaze@zellfaze.org.