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Re: [tor-bugs] #18361 [Tor Browser]: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance
#18361: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance
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Reporter: ioerror | Owner: tbb-team
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: High | Milestone:
Component: Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Critical | Resolution:
Keywords: security, privacy, anonymity | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
Sponsor: |
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Comment (by ioerror):
Replying to [comment:87 jgrahamc]:
> Replying to [comment:84 kbaegis]:
> > Finally, I'd invite you to revisit the key point here, which is that
your product line makes Tor unusable by many users who still want to
browse the web anonymously. I understand that your company has a goal.
In this specific context, the business goals are causing a legitimate harm
to web users and this is something that I suggest you revisit more broadly
within your organization. Surely CloudFlare has technical expertise that
extends beyond "Let's fix that with captcha" and there are probably (from
an engineering perspective) better ways to solve both the problems of DDoS
and spam than authenticating every single session.
>
> I agree with this. I've kicked off an internal discussion of the best
way to deal with the abuse coming from Tor (and elsewhere) that doesn't
involve CAPTCHAs. We'll continue with the other things listed above as I
want to have some immediate impact on this while in parallel looking for
better solutions.
It would be nice if this wasn't a closed discussion with answers thrown
over the wall. How can we include other people in these discussions?
>
> > I'll wrap up with a question. ''How'' are you intending on rolling
out this new feature? Is it going to be opt-in, opt-out, will there be an
email sent to your customers about using it? I think that this is
something that the community is greatly interested in.
>
> Almost everything we announce goes on our blog so I imagine we'll do it
that way. It gets emailed to people who subscribe to the blog. I don't
know if it'll be emailed to all customers (mostly because we don't tend to
send them a lot of email and it's the marketing group that decides). The
current plan is for this to be opt-in.
It would be nice if CloudFlare engaged directly and worked together in an
open manner. Talking on this bug is a great start and I hope that we can
continue this process or improve it, perhaps by switching to another open,
easy to use interface, if needed.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:92>
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