On 2014-11-25 9:06 AM, Sheeri Cabral wrote:
My guess is that while poking a firewall hole isn't hard, poking one
big enough for every Chinese Firefox user is either too much, too
costly or too dangerous to do. Same with trying to teach every
individual Firefox user in China how to poke their own firewall holes
(to me that feels like we'd be complicit in mass-treason.
For whatever it's worth the state of the art of network monitoring,
management, deep packet inspection and logging is way, way further ahead
than most people realize, and state-run firewalls and the organizations
that run them aren't something you cross lightly. Interacting with the
internet in a statistically unusual way is more than enough to raise a
flag, much less running a TOR node or a VPN. The Carol in our Alice, Bob
and Carol scenario here has an effectively infinite budget, the will to
use force and seize assets as it sees fit and a 20-year head start on R&D.
Clearly, the tradeoffs around strong privacy protections can involve
real, personal physical risk, sometimes for not having enough privacy,
but in some places, sometimes, for trying to have any at all. I'm pretty
confident that the Mozillians closest to those relationships are
intimately familiar with the risks our users in those places face,
though, and will be working to do right by our users first.
- mhoye
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