Unredacted 🗽RE: https://unredacted.social/@unredacted/116280342997139646
Nearly 500 cores and 1TB of RAM dedicated to Tor exit relays
Alexander Hansen Færøy@unredacted Sweet! How many physical nodes do you have here? How many C Tor processes is this system running?
@ahf it’s about 98 separate RPi 5s (which do crypto accel) in total. Each one is running a single C Tor process - although in the future we hope to run Arti to fully utilize all cores rather than needing to spawn multiple C Tor daemons.
@unredacted Cool! Are you using https://computeblade.com/ to store the RPi's in?
Compute Blade | Your Raspberry Pi CM4 Cluster
Rack-mountable, PoE-powered carrier board for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and compatible devices with all the necessary interfaces. 
With Compute Blade, you can create a high-density, low-power-consuming, plug-and-play blade server for home or data-center use.
@ahf for this deployment we 3D printed our own chassis. Plan to make a blog post about it and release the files. We’ve used Compute Blades in the past and do have 20x of them running as Tor exit relays currently as well! However they are always out of stock and still don’t have proper heatsinks for CM5 boards. Overall they were about 2-3x more expensive, and have some major flaws with the chassis
There’s many pictures of that Compute Blade deployment here https://unredacted.org/blog/2025/05/unredacted-labs/#greenware
Unredacted Labs, experiments for anti-censorship & privacy-focused infrastructure - Unredacted
Censorship is on the rise, and has been for a while. Censors are working hard every day to restrict access to crucial information that challenges their authoritarian regimes across the world. It’s important that we continue work to counter their efforts, and develop new and innovative ways to build out anti-censorship infrastructure which helps people […]
@unredacted Super cool! Thanks for the updates here 🥳
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I think we have to have a talk about the contradictions of the so called "free west" and how it relates to "anti cebsorship". While countries like iran and china have relatively overt censoring methods, the western internet is vastly more manipulative and the crimes of western powers are much worse while the people arent aware of them somehow. How are you planning on addressing this? Because unaddressed, the danger of using it as a weapon of "western democracy" is really high.
I think we have to have a talk about the contradictions of the so called "free west" and how it relates to "anti cebsorship". While countries like iran and china have relatively overt censoring methods, the western internet is vastly more manipulative and the crimes of western powers are much worse while the people arent aware of them somehow. How are you planning on addressing this? Because unaddressed, the danger of using it as a weapon of "western democracy" is really high.
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And since nobody wants to reply to my comment, I'll just go on and talk to myself to make this a topic that is talked about because its absolutely appalling that we have unchallenged, dogmatic perspectives.
They need to be discussed and misinformation needs to be revealed and rooted out.
So this article suggests that tor is absolutely no "privacy and anti censorship tool" but rather along the lines of radio free asia, a tool of imperialism.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/foia-requests-reveal-tor-projects-close-ties-to-us-government/238393/
