Tor in Google Summer of Code 2014
Serious question for people that are familiar with Tor: given that we've already seen people get arrested for simply running an exit node, have features like hidden services made it any safer for someone that agrees with tor's purpose (providing a less restricted end point to people that are censored by their governments) to keep an exit node running?It seems to me that arresting an exit node's maintainer for child porn serves to have a real chilling effect on the system. As much as I'd like to provide, say, a dissident with a means to voice their opinion, it's not going to help when the cops cart away the exit note and haul me off to jail.I guess what I'm thinking is that hidden tor services sort of 'close the gap' when it comes to problems like I describe above, since conceivably a political dissident could post to a hidden service (never appearing on the Internet at large) and have something of an intermediary in a country with greater freedom post it for them?