On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Praedor <[email protected]> wrote:
> I must say that I believe tor should be working to try to defeat/get around
> tor blocking. You DO realise that as more and more sites block tor as a
> matter of course it makes tor less and less useful right? It then becomes
> very simple for governments to defeat anonymity services like tor entirely by
> simply requiring by law that tor exits be blocked by any number of important
> internet "infrastructure" sites.
That's where jurisdictional diversity comes in. In the US there are
strong protections for anonymous speech. Requiring Gmail to block Tor
users would not be legally possible.
>
> What use is tor if every site you want to connect to via tor blocks you? May
> as well simply terminate the tor project for all the use it is.
>
> On Monday, February 06, 2012 02:24:31 PM Mr Dash Four wrote:
>> I am sick of them all!
>>
>> Initially, there was a small number of these in the wild, but now it is
>> widely spread - google is the main offender, but youtube (which is, as
>> we all know, google-owned) and now, wait for it, scroogle.org (a site I
>> use a lot) is also at it!
>>
>> Tor-blocking could be very easily to implement by parsing
>> cached-descriptors{.new} to see all exit nodes and then add them to a
>> blacklist and start blocking. Is there anything which can be done to
>> prevent this?
>>
>> I am thinking of something similar to what is currently in existence
>> with the bridge system - you don't know them all, just a portion of it,
>> enough to connect you to the network. Could something similar be
>> implemented with tor?
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