I was fiddling with some nixos Raspberry Pi images to try the distro out (along with clan) and noticed on first boot they reach out and connect to a tor relay to setup tor ssh.
It’s a pretty neat concept, I think it’s cool and maybe a quick way to get connected to a new device.
But the idea of connecting to tor relays at all puts me a little on edge. Feels like it’ll potentially draw attention to my IP by either relays gather analytics or my ISP for noticing the traffic at all.
Am I being overly paranoid? Am I just completely ignorant to how tor works? Do you use tor on the regular for legit traffic?
My guess is that it’s a lot easier to get a list of IPs to block from VPN providers than tor exit nodes
I doubt that because for example the Wikimedia wikis have been very successfully blocking Tor exit nodes from editing their wikis for a very long time; if they can do that, anyone can.