Tor Exit Nodes Mapped and Located

Any background on who "Conformal Systems" are and why they would operate exit nodes ? I'm not really familiar with who they are and what they do, but they seem to be the only one in the top-25 that isn't either a hosting company or a residential ISP.<p>(apart from Formless Networking, but that one is a bit more well known)<p>Not that it's not nice of them, but it seems a bit out of place.

Interesting, all the Berlin exit nodes are in a place that is a huge construction area on the Museum Island. Based on this I suppose they were only able to do city-level positioning (GeoIP or something similar).

In case its not already obvious, most Geo-IP data is not particularly correct. In my experience its often off by 50-100 miles, and lucky if it even says the correct city. I've actually had Google say my IPs were in Singapore, when they were obviously not, and its a big pain to get Google to change that. Some of the other Geo-IP providers are better, but not by a whole lot in my experience.<p>If its also not obvious, most large TOR exit nodes are in datacenters and not in people's houses, for a variety of reasons.

There's nothing new here. The exit nodes are public knowledge.

Just as I thought, the Kimsufi line is <i>really</i> popular (at least for these kinds of things)! :)

I'm a strong advocate of the Tor project, but man would I ever be afraid to be an exit node

Only 3 exit Tor nodes in the Bay Area? I'm surprised, I would have expected a lot more.

15 exit nodes in the kyrgyz republic hospital area alone? Can that be correct?

That's an uncomfortably small number of exits, in my opinion.

I think it's interesting that the vast majority are in Europe. I would have expected more in Asia and South America.

Interesting map, zooming into Utah (where I live) shows that the local ISP Xmission is running 3 exit nodes. The map shows 4, but two of them have the same IP address.

Two exit nodes near Washington DC. The NSA's headquarters are within the error tolerance of GeoIP. Coincidence?!

It's very sad that Europe has many times the number of exit nodes as the US has.