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Wouldn't it make more sense to build TOR or something like it into signal for these use cases?
by Skunkleton 8y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to build TOR or something like it into signal for these use cases?
- icebraining 8y agoTor was actually using the same trick to avoid censorship: https://blog.torproject.org/how-use-meek-pluggable-transport https://blog.torproject.org/how-use-meek-pluggable-transport meek-amazon makes it look like you are talking to an Amazon Web Services server (when you are actually talking to a Tor bridge), and meek-google makes it look like you are talking to the Google search page (when you are actually talking to a Tor bridge).
- buildbuildbuild 8y agoBundling Tor in an app is quite an engineering hurdle and latency increase, but yes. Pluggable transports allow the public to find solutions that work for specific countries faster than an in-house development team as well. Delegating censorship circumvention to the Tor Project as an opt-in option for users could save a lot of engineering hours. Tackling it yourself does get you some easy press opportunities though, as this upvoted article proves.