Re: [tor-talk] Tor virus

[HardKor <hardkor.info@xxxxxxxxx>]

You could start spreading tools like Tails that allow people to communicate
safely in a hostile environment.

https://tails.boum.org/

Tails can auto-replicate himself.
Is it possible to connect to Tor from Ethiopia ? Is there any blocking
strategy ?

HardKor

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Julian Wissmann <juwi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Basic Problem, that I see here, is that, if they have surveillance
> covering everything, they will probably also have access to and monitor
> whats going on on these PCs, locally. So putting Tor on these is not going
> to help. To the contrary, it might make things even worse for people using
> a torified machine.
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>
> ethio tor <ethiotor@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
>
> I am from Ethiopia. The problem faced by descendants in Ethiopia is many
> fold. 90 million people, a brutal repressive government by any standard, a
> single government owned ISP that has more government spies than actual
> telecommunication workers, a very poor and limited mobile and data
> infrastructure and sophisticated snooping (
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethiopia-introduces-deep-packet-inspection
> )
> regime. Certainly tor could benefit many people if it could be used widely.
> But with all the above problems how? And it just occurred to me!!
>
> I am not a coder so I don't know if it is possible. I am not certain what
> ethical questions it could raise or if it should at all under the above
> circumstance.
>
> Most of the PCs in the country are in government offices or given to
> government workers. And most of this PCs are the only once that has a
> relatively fast and free Internet access. Some thing that is common about
> all this PCs is that most of them are full of virus and Trojan horses (some
> say Chinese origin). Even state minsters offices. I am sure by now you are
> guessing where I am going with this.
>
> What if there is a tor "virus" (pardon for the choice of word) that can
> infect such pc and make a relay, bridge, or what ever on the background
> undetected.
>
> I have a feeling that if it were a smart idea some one would have thought
> of it but I could not sleep until I know how stupid an idea it is.
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