Re: Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha is out

[Moses <moses.mason@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:17 PM,  <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:12:48AM +0800, moses.mason@xxxxxxxxx wrote 1.0K bytes in 27 lines about:
> : Could you guys add a CAPTCHA test for the bridges page
> : https://bridges.torproject.org/ ? It is almost certain that bridges
> : are crawled, analyzed and blocked by bots now.
>
> This is on the short-term todo list.  However, it's been told to us that
> humans are crawling the bridges, not bots.  In particular, China is
> crawling the https and smtp pools by human interaction, not bots.
>

Captchas are not only prevent bots, but also increase the difficulty
of malicious collection of bridges by ISPs/Gov. And it would be little
affection to normal users. Glad to hear it has been put into the todo
list, and can't wait to see it :-)


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