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TOR asking to run snowflake to help Iranians with internet access (mastodon.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Here's the link to the docker docs

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

  1. Not a node, but a proxy. Entry node's IPs in Tor are publicly known, so they are easy to censor. With Snowflake you create a proxy (bridge) between a censored user and an entry node, and since your IP is not listed as a node, you help the user bypass the censorship.

  2. In theory, nope. But if the user is doing something bad, a prosecutor could argue you helped them to do so. I don't know about any case like this involving Snowflake, and I am not a lawyer. You could be a target if you were to host material, which is not the case with Snowflake.

In case it helps, I've been running the extension with no trouble that I'm aware of for a few years.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Thanks for this!

    Well I spent the time between when I posted and when you replied looking into various things related to tor, legality, and snowflake more specifically, as well as a bit after your reply since you gave me a couple extra things to look into.. (like if there’s a risk of running alongside self-host software like Plex and jellyfin, I didn’t find anything about it so I sort of assume it’s fine..?)..

    I didn’t see anything overly bad other than if you yourself use tor, maybe, so took the plunge and.. have had a whole two connections already, so yay, I’m a snowflake!

    I feel slightly better about myself, like when I started using BOINC crowdsource computing for research in the early noughties. :)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ike if there’s a risk of running alongside self-host software like Plex and jellyfin

    I don't see why there should be any problem, as they use different ports. Plus I've had no troubles running a Jellyfin and Navidrome instances, plus some other self-hosted services alongisde Snowflake.

    I'm really glad to have helped you :). Tor is very mystified, but an awesome tool, and very neat from a technical point of view. In case you haven't seen them, I recommend these 2 amazing videos from Computerphile: How TOR works and TOR Hidden Services

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