<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">Neither. If you have a selective way of telling</div>
people you deem "in the need", than you meet my<br>
criteria. It would likely be hard for us all to<br>
meet that criteria though, I don't. You may tell<br>
me that you can help me, but then I have to trust<br>
you, which doesn't really make too much sense. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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And a general mechanism to do this seems<br>
impossible, doesn't it? How can you keep a<br>
secret while telling it to the world.<br>
<br>
Any newcomers to tor who cannot understand the<br>
implications of when they should or should not<br>
be running a bridge are unlikely to understand<br>
the nuances of distributing a secret to those<br>
"in the need" (and by whose criteria are they<br>
in need anyway) only. If you have arguments<br>
to the contrary, I welcome them and feel that<br>
many on this list might benefit from them,<br>
because it would be beyond my understanding<br>
of the point of bridges, and perhaps other's<br>
too?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The project currently has a method of distributing bridges to anyone who asks. Individual requesters are given only a select number of addresses. If a 'clueless' user sets their tor as a bridge, their bridge gets added to the (secret) bridge directory, and handed out from time to time.. Please see <a href="https://www.torproject.org/bridges">https://www.torproject.org/bridges</a> for more information.</div>
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