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> (If an anonymous TOR user can obtain bridge address, shared by any means, email, Signal, messenger pigeons or whatever, RKN operative can obtain it as well)
by stingraycharles 4y ago
> (If an anonymous TOR user can obtain bridge address, shared by any means, email, Signal, messenger pigeons or whatever, RKN operative can obtain it as well)
As a Tor relay operator, this always seemed like the most silly aspect of bridges: if someone really wanted to block Tor, wouldn’t they just block any bridges they encountered?!
Some of the bridges are even published on public pages, wouldn’t that defeat the whole point of bridges in the first place?
- cowtools 4y agoMany private bridges are distributed privately through cell systems.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoI was talking only about public bridges, because this is the use-case that RKN is trying to prevent: people have a free way to access blocked information. People who have means find/access a private bridge can have a private VPN too, and it'll work much better for this purpose. Btw, it is quite difficult now to have private bridge or VPN because of idiotic ban on Mastercard / visa payments Russians can't pay for hosting without a lot of trouble. While inside radishes Russia Mastercard/Visa work fine. Putin is happy: dissidents are cut off, his supporters didn't even notice.
- jacooper 4y agoApparently "Salmon" is intended to fix this. > Tor is also working to stop the potential abuse of bridges. In 2016, researchers proposed a system called Salmon that aims to weed out those accessing bridge details with the intent of blocking or abusing them.
- Ajedi32 4y agoPretty old, but here's the paper: https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Douglas2016a.pdf https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Douglas2016a.pdf