> The more people are aware that plaintext over Tor is a really, really bad idea [1], the more people will use end-to-end encryption.
Yes, but how does your collecting logs impact overall awareness?
Even if it did (say, you make the logs available through some snazzy web interface, it gets mass media attention), how does that balance out with the users who traffic you exposed?
I didn't mean that more exit nodes should collect and share their logs. That would indeed weaken the Tor network, by facilitating traffic correlation.
I meant inspecting/manipulating the traffic if it is unencrypted. As a political statement, this should of course never actually attack the client, but instead try to raise attention by e.g. injecting a message along the lines:
Hi, I'm a stranger and it was trivial for me to
inject this message. Please use HTTPS to prevent
me from doing this.
Thinking more about that, however, this may be a bad idea. People could perceive this to be a security hole in the Tor network itself, rather than HTTP itself, which could damage the reputation of Tor.
Yes, but how does your collecting logs impact overall awareness?
Even if it did (say, you make the logs available through some snazzy web interface, it gets mass media attention), how does that balance out with the users who traffic you exposed?