Re: [tor-talk] another video link. good stark examples of tor anonymity protecting people

[Greg Curcio <gregcurcio@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Greg Curcio

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM, stn <stn@xxxxxx> wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hZZNFQm1Vs
>
> more social and political change data but with more examples than the
> previous video mentioned regarding the very real dangers involved trying to
> speak one's beliefs in an oppressive regime.  worse case death.
>
>
> writeup
> Published on Aug 30, 2013
>
> Tor developers Roger Dingledine and Jacob Appelbaum talk about how exactly
> governments are doing the blocking, both in terms of what signatures they
> filter in Tor (and how Tor has gotten around the blocking in each case),
> and what technologies they use to deploy the filters -- including the use
> of Western technology to operate the surveillance and censorship
> infrastructure in Tunisia (Smartfilter), Syria (Bluecoat), and other
> countries. They cover what they've learned about the mindset of the censor
> operators (who in many cases don't want to block Tor because they use it),
> and how we can measure and track the wide-scale censorship in these
> countries. Last, they explain Tor's development plans to get ahead of the
> address harvesting and handshake DPI arms races.
> (Iran blocked Tor handshakes using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in January
> 2011 and September 2011. Bluecoat tested out a Tor handshake filter in
> Syria in June 2011. China has been harvesting and blocking IP addresses for
> both public Tor relays  and private Tor bridges for years.)
>
> Category
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