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When I was traveling in China, I would have had no access to Facebook if it weren’t for Tor. All I needed was my USB drive with a Tor + Linux and I could access
by lbenes 10y ago
When I was traveling in China, I would have had no access to Facebook if it weren’t for Tor. All I needed was my USB drive with a Tor + Linux and I could access the free Internet from any computer. Providing anonymity of identity is just one of the many uses of tor. [1]
[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en
- slig 10y agoWhy doesn't China block Tor? Isn't it easy as blocking all known public IP addresses? It doesn't make sense to not allow the user to access certain sites, but allow Tor that can easily bypass that protection.
- jaeh 10y agothere are non public ip addresses and the tor team spends quite some time fighting the big firewall in various ways. talk from the 23c3 about tor and china: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6A7jLpL3Rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6A7jLpL3Rs
- ggregoire 10y agogreat talk, thanks for sharing this video
- rnhmjoj 10y agoNo, not really: even if you could block all the known tor relays there are still the bridges that are exactly meant for this situation: bridges are like normal relays but their full list is not disclosed so it shouldn't be possible to block them entirely. This is probably what he has been using. https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges