I think it means private bridges. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Cypher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 12/29/2014 09:52 AM, Lars Luthman wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 09:11 -0600, Cypher wrote: > >> So I'm looking through the Der Spiegel data dump and noticed the > >> following statement on document 35543: > >> > >> "The client must not be running a Tor router of their own..." > >> > >> That made me thing of a few questions but I'm specifically wondering > >> what they mean here. > >> > >> 1. Do they mean that it is confusing to them if I am connecting to the > >> Tor network from a computer that also runs a relay but I do not have my > >> client configured to use my relay > >> > >> or > >> > >> 2. Do they mean that it is confusing to them if I am connecting to the > >> Tor network through a relay running on my own machine? > > > > That depends on whether they can distinguish between connections made by > > different Tor processes coming from the same network. Hopefully they > > can't, in which case it's both 1 and 2, but if the two Tor processes are > > different versions of Tor or use different versions of libraries such as > > OpenSSL it might be possible to tell the connections apart, in which > > case it's only 2. > > Interesting. Could that mean then that it might be advisable to always > enter the Tor network from the node running on my PC instead of allowing > Tor to select it? I know that is against best practices but, in light of > this new info, might that be the case? > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
