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Re: [tor-bugs] #2905 [Vidalia]: Adapt Vidalia UI to allow users to avoid connecting to the public tor network
#2905: Adapt Vidalia UI to allow users to avoid connecting to the public tor
network
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Reporter: anonym | Owner: chiiph
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Vidalia: 0.2.13
Component: Vidalia | Version: Vidalia 0.2.10
Keywords: bridges | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by chiiph):
I see your point, but say you have a totally unexperienced user, that
wants to report some incident or whatever that may put her life in risk.
So she hears about Tor, downloads TBB, opens Vidalia, and a popup shows up
saying: "Do you want to use a bridge to access the network?" or "Is Tor
banned on your country?" or something else more user friendly.
I imagine this will confuse the user.
The problem here is that if the user doesn't know what to do, anything she
does to find out more can be viewed as exactly the same as just trying to
connect to the tor network directly, so it's kind of the chicken and egg
thing here.
And even if there are cases where a user's life might be at risk because
of a bad software policy, I wonder how many users don't fit that profile
and end up really scared of using tor because they don't want to die.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2905#comment:7>
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