On 2018-02-12 11:39, nusenu wrote:
Once the decision has been made to publish contactInfo, people with access to the current contactInfo (bridgeDB, isis?) should sent current bridge operators a pre-notice about the upcoming change so they have a chance to react to it.
I assume you will not implement this change retroactively (only contactInfo going forward from a given date will be published but not from past descriptors).
Fine question. I guess there's not much value in having contact information for bridges running in the past, but only for current bridges.
We could pick a date like March 1 or April 1 and start including contact information in descriptors published after that date.
Then it also makes sense to reach out to bridge operators with such an announcement.
We could also to reach out to the IMDEA researcher that wrote the bridge paper "Dissecting Tor Bridges: a Security Evaluation of Their Private and Public Infrastructures" as they might have some additional ideas why this could be a bad idea?
Good idea, I'll do that now.
(Again, adding more context for this list, this is different research group than the one disclosing a list of bridge IP addresses a couple month ago.)
All the best, Karsten