I think the point is it's security through obscurity - yes of course someone downloading CP could be traced to your IP address, it actually happened in London to a man I knew but the conversation with the Police lasted less than five minutes :"I run an Apache Home Server running a Tor exit relay Officer, here take a look. ""Thank you Sir, have a good day."The Police understand the implications of running an exit relay as well as we do. It may well be the case that someone does something nefarious via your IP, the point is it won't be possible to single you out for LEO's attentions on that basis.By way of compromise it's also possible to run a Tor non exit relay....!V.Quote from: wretched on May 20, 2012, 01:48 ambut also, why would you want to run an exit relay if you ARE doing something illegal, running an EXIT relay increases your chances of being investigated for anything that might have happened from your exit node, so why invite terrorism investigations, child porn investigations, assassination plot investigations etc into your home? if you run an exit relay, anyone could be using Tor for clearnet communications through YOUR exit relay, and that brings unwanted attention, so encrypt your hd, YES, run an exit relay...NO (at least not from a machine that also contains incriminating evidence that could be used against you. the encryption thing was not the point of my post, the exit relay being a stupid choice while doing illegal activity was the point.