I got this security issue message:
You specified a public address ‘0.0.0.0:9050’ for SocksPort. Other people on the Internet might find your computer and use it as an open proxy. Please don’t allow this unless you have a good reason.
Why is this open by default?
How to change that?
I can’t log in anywhere…
Please help me get a better understanding of the issue. Where have you “got this security issue message?” Where are you seeing that? The Tor log?
Yes exactly, the tor node.
I’m very worried about my privacy now,
So I had to shutdown my node.
Unless are forwarding port 9050 from your router to your server (Which is not standard and you would of have to set it up), it’s not an issue.
Even if you were they’d only be able to connect to tor from it.
StartOS has a good reason for doing this tor needs to run on the IP range that the containers can connect to and not just localhost.
So in summary unless you have manually set your router to forward 9050 from the internet this is nothing to worry about.
It’s not really a privacy issue anyway. It just means that if port 9050 was exposed to the Internet, as Alvaro mentioned, someone else might be able to rout their tor traffic through your node, as a tor entry point.