On 5/7/2012 2:20 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 05:07:26AM -0400, eliaz wrote: >> Of what use is a bridge working off an IP address of a provider located >> in, say, the US, to a client in, say, Syria? Sorry for the elementary >> question. - eli > > The client in Syria can connect through the bridge in the US to reach > the Tor network. Simplifying a bit, the bridge provides the reachability, > and the Tor network provides the anonymity. > > See also https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges
Thanks for the reassurance about the process. While I accept the free-speech basis of Tor (that "bad" as well as "good" guys can use it) and the assumption that the network is overall doing more good than bad, I've been concerned at the high usage that my bridge seems to be getting from Syria (& China) when, as you say, at least for Syria it's not necessary to hop all the way to the US to reach an entry node. Maybe I worry too much, since it's neither here nor there to digital comms how geographically far away an entry node is from a client machine. -- gpg: 0xE498E90D _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
