The big problem with being an exit node is a legal one. Specifically the Cease and Desist notices from the RIAA/MPAA.

I had an exit node with 2mbps bandwidth DEDICATED to TOR. Not too long later, my service provider started getting the copyright infringement emails. Even though I handled them all myself, and sent replies, called people, showed my service provider the TOR page about legal threats, and even promised to cover any legal costs *IF* it did ever get that that, eventually my service provider just got sick of receiving and forwarding the emails.

Now I don't specifically blame my service provider for this - it IS a potential legal exposure/battle they just don't need. Now you could blame the people using TOR for P2P, but they're doing it for exactly the reason TOR was created - to avoid detection of who they really are. Now you can't tell people TOR cannot be used for illegal activity, because the very reason TOR was CREATED was to facilitate illegal activity (eg. dissident speech in China). So what is illegal or not is a judgement call.

Therefore the blame ends up being on the RIAA/MPAA - but even there, they are legitimately trying to protect their rights. As unpopular as it sounds, and annoying and ineffective as it may be, there IS a reason they are sending out emails of the like. It's cheap for them to do it, and the threat of legal action is usually enough for ISP's to yank someone's pipe.

So my TOR node was, in the end, turned into a non-exit node. Until this kind of problem is solved (for which I don't know what the solution would be), then exit nodes on TOR will be a rare commodity, and as such, bandwidth on the TOR network will be limited because it is being constrained to very few eligible pipes.

This is, of course, completely separate to wiki-pinups .. which is just pages and pages of semi-nude pictures of Jimmy Wales ... *shudder*.

According to http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl .. $6/hr in 1969 is equivalent to $34.78 today. I read it on the internet, so it must be true! :P

So not too shabby. Not omgwow!, but not exactly minimum wage either.

Re-read my comment. I said if you already have root access, INSTALL a root kit with root access so you can return later.

This security exploit REQUIRES root access to GET root access to install a rootkit. It's moronic.

"On Linux, if you have root access, you can override the MTR buffers and install a root kit."

If you already have root access, WTF is the point, just install the root kit. The idea of exploits is to *GET* root access to be able to install these root kits.

Now while this might be moderately interesting if you can somehow manage to get a service running as root to run said code, but then, if you can get the service running as root to execute arbitrary code like this, then why not get it to install the root kit for you.

Stupidest exploit scare ever.

Seriously, "Eye" not "Eyes"? ... I guess the pirates and freaks are out in full force.

I thought new blood entered the franchise every time someone was forced to watch Enterprise. I know that made me want to slash MY wrists unless I turned it off.

This is similar to how all pilots who expect to fly internationally (and probably all commercial pilots regardless) are required to speak English. It is the standard language of air traffic control and such.

If you expect anyone else to work with or see your code, you should probably be writing it (and commenting it) in English. Not because it is a better language than your native language, but because it has basically become the modern Lingua Franca and tends to have the greatest chance of 'common ground' between nationalities.

Pfft, damn americans and their stupid mm/dd/yy date format.

Why not 21-12-21 12:21:12? At least that works with yy-mm-dd or dd-mm-yy, either of which is a much more logical date format. Which would make the date 2021.

How is this any different to P2P over TOR, except for the fact TOR exit nodes tend to block several 'standard' P2P ports (which is easily fixed by using a non-standard port for your P2P)?

TOR has the added avantage of nobody needing to use some new piece of specialized software to be able to get the benefits of anonymity - and it's not used for a single purpose - so people can't go 'Oh! he's using OneSwarm! He must be P2P sharing, and want to hide it!' ....

I'm betting their focus will more be their SURFACE platform - demoing things like transferring to/from media player to the surface PC by just putting the media device ON the surface and dragging stuff to/from it. That seems where their next generation of 'wow' factor is going.