What are the dangers of hosting a TOR exit node at my home address?

I live in a country without any internet censorship. I want to help people who do have internet censorship by hosting a TOR node at my house, more specifically an exit node. What do I do when people access illegal websites from my IP address? Should I be concerned? Is there a way to notify law enforcement or my ISP that I’m hosting a TOR node, and that these activities are not coming from me?

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Wait so you mean I shouldn’t run a Tor node in an unsupervised government institution that I suspect have corruption in it? :sweat_smile:

You should not do this.

Should I run an exit relay from home? | Tor Project | Support.

It is just as useful to run non-exit-nodes, because having non-malicious guard nodes is very important too.

I am starting an exit relay association at https://www.triplebit.org/ and the amount of effort it is taking to avoid these problems is immense. If you want to support exit nodes on the network it would be a better use of money donating it to nonprofits who can run exit nodes in a safer way, like https://emeraldonion.org/

There is this list for example, although I probably wouldn’t contribute to anyone in Germany or the Netherlands (not that these groups aren’t great, but… Tor has a centralization problem): Tor Project | Relay Associations

Otherwise, yeah, run a non-exit-node.

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