The Tor Project has an ingenious plan to put exit nodes in libraries

The Tor Project has announced, in association with the Library Freedom Project, a new initiative to put Tor exit nodes in public libraries, and help educate users and librarians alike, of the importance of Tor and its mission for user online privacy. Because of the way Tor was constructed to work, Tor exit nodes play a crucial importance above of all Tor middle relays and bridges. Tor exit nodes are the public spot from where traffic that enters the Tor network leaves back to the Internet, hiding the user’s real identity from surveillance projects run like the NSA. From these nodes, huge quantities of traffic spews out online, and these servers are usually where a law enforcement investigation comes to a dead stop. Because of this, many individuals and companies that have opted to run a Tor exit node have been in the past under a heavy barrage of questions from police officials, many times being forced to take their servers offline after official DMCA takedowns. What the Tor Project is doing with its latest project is an absolute genius move, at least from a legal standpoint.