23 Nov
2016
23 Nov
'16
6:13 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:09:16AM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
If you make all the OONI instances test all the bridges... then when the Chinese firewall operator wants to know where all the current bridges are... they just have to run an OONI instance...?
It's not *all* the bridges, just the few dozen default ones that are hardcoded into the source code of Tor Browser, the ones that are already easy to discover. Not the secret bridges from BridgeDB. The default bridges do get blocked eventually (only by the GFW, as far as we know), but they also sometimes break and nobody notices for a while.