True enough Tommyhawk, nothing illegal at all with running a Tor relay.It's all about lowering your exposure, and anticipating the worst.If you're doing illegal things over Tor, why take the extra risk of leaving a record of the fact that you've been using Tor. Take Ene over at OVDB who's looking at 20 years for selling LSD. I fucking guarantee that the jury and the sentencing judge are going to hear about how Tor is used for illegal drugs and child porn, and if they can pull out reams of printouts showing he had a Tor relay running, well... They can't prove what the traffic was, but that middle age jury is just gonna hear Tor blah blah used for illegal stuff blah blah look at the records showing him using Tor blah blah running all the time blah blah...And the 'nick' I referred to is the nickname that you pick when you set up your relay, or that it defaults to with your IP if you leave it blank.Hang out in the Tor devs mailing list sometime, hell, ask Roger Dingledine or Mathew or ames, the three guys that created most the protocols and know more about how it works than any other people on earth. They'll tell you NEVER run a relay if you are using Tor for anonymity.No, running a relay isn't going to get you caught. But if you're close to getting caught, it can be the probable cause they need to get enough to ensure you're caught. And I fucking guarantee you if that happens they'll start spouting stuff like 'Advanced technical encryption and communication to avoid capture' and act like they solved the Rosetta Stone to nail you, and that's enough to add serious time to your sentence because then they've nailed you as an advanced criminal operation using high tech methods, and moves you further the wrong way on the sentencing scale.So it's not a case of will it get you caught, it's a case of if for some fucking stupid reason you get caught, or could be getting close to being caught, why leave a trail like a slug for them that can only hurt you in that situation.Personally, I believe in doing everything possible to lower my exposure, and I put running a relay while doing illegal shit over Tor right up there with hiding your illegal shit in your mailbox. Actually, why the fuck not leave our illegal shit in the mailbox. Cause really, what are the chances the cops are gonna walk up and look in your mailbox, right? Zero. Absolutely fucking zero. And even with that zero chance, it's still a stupid idea.Edit to add what took me under 5 minutes:At the time of your post, there were 2,217 active relays.Take out 417 exit nodesTake out all nodes flagged as being capable of being guards, whether they have their guard flag set or not.Take out all the chinese, german, and eastern european ones (Just a WAG there, could use other metrics)Finally, take out all that offer 50+ kb/sec in bandwidth.You are now the proud member of a group of 17 folks who have the relay profile you described in your first post.I'm sure I could get it under 17 if I further narrowed it down by uptime.All info available in the links I provided, and to anyone who cares to look.Kinda makes ya' feel real safe, doesn't it.Suggesting folks here run as a relay is bad advice, plain and simple, and defending the suggestion merely compounds your error.Double edit: Of those 17, only 9 are in the US, and they're all in different states. If you've ever given out info about what state you're in, any swinging dick with 10 minutes and some Tor smarts can now go back through the records and pinpoint, fucking exactly, your IP you are running your relay on.Triple edit: Basing uptime on when you said you started using a relay, and allowing 2 hours either way for a fudge factor precludes the need for you to have let anyone know what state you're in. (You can conveniently sort by uptime as well as bandwidth on the Tor metrics page.)Try it yourself Tommyhawk, you just outed your own IP.