> > Neither. If you have a selective way of telling > people you deem "in the need", than you meet my > criteria. It would likely be hard for us all to > meet that criteria though, I don't. You may tell > me that you can help me, but then I have to trust > you, which doesn't really make too much sense.
> And a general mechanism to do this seems > impossible, doesn't it? How can you keep a > secret while telling it to the world. > > Any newcomers to tor who cannot understand the > implications of when they should or should not > be running a bridge are unlikely to understand > the nuances of distributing a secret to those > "in the need" (and by whose criteria are they > in need anyway) only. If you have arguments > to the contrary, I welcome them and feel that > many on this list might benefit from them, > because it would be beyond my understanding > of the point of bridges, and perhaps other's > too? The project currently has a method of distributing bridges to anyone who asks. Individual requesters are given only a select number of addresses. If a 'clueless' user sets their tor as a bridge, their bridge gets added to the (secret) bridge directory, and handed out from time to time.. Please see https://www.torproject.org/bridges for more information.