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How would they know their traffic was csam? Traffic passing through an exit node is traffic between a Tor user and the open Internet. Who's running csam servers on the open Internet instead of as hidden services? And without https? Especially when Tor Browser enforces https? This story doesn't add up at all.

They did bust a site owner despite Tor, though. That story's true.

Naive question. Isn't tor supposed to be private? How can you know the contents of the communication just by running a node?

If it's an exit node, you know what the user is connecting to but not which user.

That's discouraging, if true. I don't mind doing the occasional on-principle thing (like running Tor Browser for general-purpose browsing, and Tor as the VPN plugin on my phone), and maybe it's a citizen-technologist obligation to do my share of that. But I'd rather not have some Orwellian Bayesian system flagging me for using Tor.

run a node. but never an exit one.