On 03/08/2014 12:50 PM, Akater wrote: > The Internet will become more Tor-friendly only when Tor becomes > (relatively) mainstream. > > Unless 1 out of (say) 14 internet users run Tor exit relays, Tor will > be blocked, gradually more and more aggressively. > > Tor community should advertise it, promote it, invite new users, > encourage them to run exit nodes from home, provide reliable > technical support and so on. > > That's the only way to go. Since nobody seems to be interested in > doing that, Tor will die soon, being blocked almost everywhere.
That's an obvious chicken/egg problem, especially for exits. Even with reduced exit policy, running a Tor exit can get your IP blacklisted. Most Tor users are seeking privacy and anonymity, so having their IP listed as a Tor exit is counterintuitive. There are idealists, of course. But I can't imagine how ~7% of Internet users would be that idealistic. But maybe there's a solution involving IPv6, cloud services and Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies. With growth and competition in cloud services, the Tor cloud could start including exit bridges as well as entry bridges. With IPv6 addressing, bridges could change their IPs rapidly enough to avoid both entry and exit blocks. Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies could provide a mechanism for at least some users to anonymously fund the Tor cloud. Also, by incorporating automatic receipts in the payment system, embedded encrypted messages could update bridge users with addresses of forthcoming bridges. Doing that securely for exit bridges would be harder, but not impossible. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
