| Hi Roger and Karsten, The problem with Tor and Tor Bridges is so few people know about it. And to get a Tor bridge one must understand Gmail usage, etc. All when English is probably not the first language. I agree that collecting and sending Bridge address or Squid proxy address is not the ideal method but in my opinion it is better than nothing (assuming the Tor network get blocked). What are the options? Tor needs to be easier for people to find and use Bridge addresses. I have helped 6 people setup Tor and Tor Bridges in the last week so they can help the Iranians. And every person was brand new to Tor and each one complained about how hard it was to setup and run (they all use Windows XP). Two people tried and gave up. The hardest issues seems to be telling people about Bridges and how to find them. If one is using Tor and doesn't know about Bridges and all of the sudden Tor is blocked I don't think the person would find Bridges or understand their use without a lot of effort (most people have little understanding of most GUIs, let alone command line, etc). I would love to see Tor get more attention, even though you (Roger) would not. I assume you are correct but it just seems so many people who could use and greatly benefit from Tor are not because they don't know about it... I for one would like to email the Internet anchor Josh Levs from CNN. I would like to tell him about Tor and help him understand it. Then he can report on how people in Iran can use Tor and how people outside Iran can email Tor to people within Iran in case the Tor website goes down. Would be mind if I did so? I would not discuss Bridges. I sees both sides of the issue but to me it's most important to let people know about Tor and Tor Bridges. I assume it's only a short time until Iran blocks anonymity networks. I am very surprised they have not done so yet... You and Karsten know much more than I do so I defer to you. But I do think it's very important to let people know how they can use Tor to help in this crisis. --- On Sun, 6/21/09, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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