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Buge on April 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The People Who Risk Jail to Maintain the Tor Netwo...

Yes, many exit nodes are malicious. That's why you should always use https when using tor.

mrsteveman1 on April 28, 2015 [–]

I've seen at least one exit node present an invalid certificate for any requested https:// url, but that's loud and obvious.

schoen on April 28, 2015 | [–]

If you let the Tor developers know about this, they can mark it as a BadExit.

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