Most of people are uneducated about what is Tor and what is used for. That can lead to trouble.
I have used pluggable transports but they are too slow (50KB/s) 2016-01-16 15:00 GMT+01:00 David Stainton <dstainton...@gmail.com>: > 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 >
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