Measurement of the amount of discrimination by website operators on Tor users?
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out the status of this blog post (from August 2014): https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-... Specifically this part: "Step one is to enumerate the set of websites and other Internet services that handle Tor connections differently from normal connections, and look for patterns that help us identify the common (centralized) services that impact many sites". I think it's an important step to help make more informed decisions about how the usability of Tor can be improved (by reducing discrimination). I've got a measurement platform in place, some ideas of how I'd like the study to be done, and an awesome mentor to help me with it. But I'd like to know if it's already been accomplished by someone else before investing time into it. Thanks! Rishab
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Rishab Nithyanand <rishabn.uci@gmail.com> wrote:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/call-arms-helping-internet-services-accept-...
Step one is to enumerate the set of ... services that handle Tor connections differently
I think it's an important step to help make more informed decisions about how the usability of Tor can be improved (by reducing discrimination). I've got a measurement platform in place, some ideas of how I'd like the study to be done, and an awesome mentor to help me with it. But I'd like to know if it's already been accomplished by someone else before investing time into it.
Afaik no formal work, only some early framing and manual collection exists, most of which is linked within that blog post and its wiki pages therein. Feel free to float your ideas here as a means to further develop / doc that framing and go for it. Tor-talk might also be able to provide input / volunteers, particularly about how services handle tor differently during actual use, such as how user accounts are treated. (Any scanner can detect frontpage blockage, which is useful project info itself.)
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