On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:12:48AM +0800, [email protected] wrote 1.0K > bytes in 27 lines about: > : Could you guys add a CAPTCHA test for the bridges page > : https://bridges.torproject.org/ ? It is almost certain that bridges > : are crawled, analyzed and blocked by bots now. > > This is on the short-term todo list. However, it's been told to us that > humans are crawling the bridges, not bots. In particular, China is > crawling the https and smtp pools by human interaction, not bots. >
Captchas are not only prevent bots, but also increase the difficulty of malicious collection of bridges by ISPs/Gov. And it would be little affection to normal users. Glad to hear it has been put into the todo list, and can't wait to see it :-) > *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
