On Nov 16, 2013 1:01 PM, "Martin Kepplinger" martink@posteo.de wrote:

Hi,

Sorry for being lazy, I'm not sure if I can figure it enirely out myself: Is there _any_ implication on the status of a bridge in the Tor network when I run random web services like an open website, xmpp server, whatever, on the same device/IP? It'll somehow be more exposed that way but I'd be happy on any opinion. I guess probability that someone finds out that there is a bridge behind my IP is rising.

I really have nothing to back this up but I would *think* that additional services on the same IP might mask the bridge from / confuse some active/reactive probing based bridge disovery attacks. Then again, if active probing is usually only done on a particular (ip, port) pair (the one that someone in China is connecting to, for example), then there's probably no difference anyway.