[phaer]

Very unlikely if you just hosting an onion service with legal content, where all traffic is encrypted.

Having to deal with law enforcement is unlikely even if you run a normal, encrypted, TOR relay.

Exit nodes, on the other hand, will most likely get letters or even visits by law enforcement. But those are not involved at all when just running an onion service.

[jandrese]

There is one form of harassment though, if you run even just a TOR Relay you tend to be put on realtime blackhole lists regularly which will cause random websites to refuse your connection. Things like banks, ticket sites, even your insurance company might suddenly block your connection because your IP is listed as "Exterme Risk, active threats, verified" on one of like 200 RBL sites because someone scraped TOR and put all of the IP addresses they found on there and tagged them as active threats.

[immibis]

Don't run it at home then.

Or do, and call your bank's customer support until they fix it.

Or wait until the next day when it's your neighbour's problem because your IP changes every day and your bank gets a bunch of complaints from different customers who are your neighbours.

[RealityVoid]

> because someone scraped TOR and put all of the IP addresses they found on there and tagged them as active threats.

Yeah, or, hear me out... Someone used the exit node for active attacks. (Gasp! What? On my onion?)

[TOMDM]

It does make me wonder if people are running very boring polite websites that can suddenly do very not boring or polite things if you know how to ask the right way over an onion address.

Surely I can't be the only one to think of this right?

[jazzyjackson]

In fact dozens of US spies and informants were killed or imprisoned when a secret communications network was exposed doing just that. I wish I bookmarked a better source, it described that the HTML for the portal was reused on every site, so once it was discovered on one site, everyone using it was burned.

Here's one article that alludes to it re: CIA informants in Iran, but I seem to remember China killing US spies and it just not making the news at all

"an analysis by two independent cybersecurity specialists found that the now-defunct covert online communication system that Hosseini used – located by Reuters in an internet archive – may have exposed at least 20 other Iranian spies and potentially hundreds of other informants operating in other countries around the world.

This messaging platform, which operated until 2013, was hidden within rudimentary news and hobby websites where spies could go to connect with the CIA. Reuters confirmed its existence with four former U.S. officials."

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spie...

[throawayonthe]

that seems unwise, you'd be associating your 'impolite' activities with an irl legal identity

[bauruine]

Tor does this sort of although not like you think. It's used as a bridge transport.

>https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-webtunnel-evading-ce...

>WebTunnel is a censorship-resistant pluggable transport designed to mimic encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) inspired by HTTPT. It works by wrapping the payload connection into a WebSocket-like HTTPS connection, appearing to network observers as an ordinary HTTPS (WebSocket) connection. So, for an onlooker without the knowledge of the hidden path, it just looks like a regular HTTP connection to a webpage server giving the impression that the user is simply browsing the web.