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> Generally, it's best not to run Tor relays from home as services will start to blacklist your IP as a proxy.

Conversely, if you're engaging in illegal online behavior from your home IP, intermittently running a TOR exit node could be a useful mechanism for creating plausible deniability.

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IANAL, and I wouldn't try explaining that to a prosecutor or a federal judge...

what's stopping someone running an exit node through a "no logs" VPN? (serious question)

Nothing.

"TOR was developed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory and funded by DARPA to help U.S. intelligence and foreign freedom fighters communicate under oppressive regimes. I run this exit node to support their patriotic work to protect freedom abroad. I have no control of the traffic that emerges, and I don't collect logs in order to protect covert intelligence operations."

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