Why would someone get into trouble for using Tor? Furthermore, have you have heard of pluggable transports for Tor?
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Raúl Martínez <r...@rme.li> wrote: > Hi, > I am writing this message to make a simple suggestion that could help > driving more adoption to Tor by making using tor less obvious for a network > administrator. > > This suggestion tries to address the user case of a common Tor usage, in > which the user is not being attacked nor mitm, he is just using tor in his > work for example. > > The network admin of the office is not searching actively for Tor users in > his network but one day he log-in in the router panel and he sees this: > > - Current conexions - > > WORKSTATION-98 > 38.29.00.2 [torproxy10.teaxxcu.com] > > Is obvious that is using tor. The network admin was not looking for Tor > usage in his network but it saw this without looking for it. Now this worker > can be in serious trouble for using Tor. > > So my suggestion is to set-up a custom hostname an a Tor-explaining html > index ONLY in TOR EXIT nodes. They are the only nodes that can get in > trouble and its helpful to advertise that they are tor nodes. > > ENTRY GUARD nodes should not advertise neither in the hostname nor in a > HTML-index-page that they are Tor nodes. This way the network admin would > only see an IP and a common hostname, that is a normal behaviour for a HTTPS > request. > > So, having said that I encourage all Entry-Guard owners to unset his > hostname and to disable the HTML-index-page. That could help a lot of Tor > users to not draw unwanted attention. > > > Obviously a network-admin can get a list of Tor relays and check if you are > connecting to one of them but most of network-admins just take a look at his > router info page without further investigation. > > Thanks for your time. > > > TL;DR: I encourage all Entry-Guard owners to unset his hostname and to > disable the HTML-index-page. > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
