[tbb-bugs] #18361 [Tor Browser]: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance

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#18361: Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance
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 Reporter:  ioerror                       |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                          |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser                   |        Version:
 Severity:  Critical                      |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  security, privacy, anonymity  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by wwaites):

 Replying to [comment:185 jgrahamc]:

 > This idea just kicks the ball down the line. The right solution is to
 allow
 > Tor users who are not behaving in a malicious manner 'normal' access to
 the
 > web.

 Well no not really. Cloudflare is fundamentally the *wrong* solution for
 security, because it is about putting a bubble around broken and
 vulnerable
 web sites. This is easier than fixing the actual problems so it is
 attractive.

 This is quite apart from what might be the *right* use of Cloudflare or
 other
 CDNs (modulo surveillance) which is efficiently delivering data from as
 close
 to the edge as possible, and coincidentally being able to sink volumetric
 DDoS attacks.

 The problems with Tor arise, near as I can tell, almost exclusive from the
 former. It's just bad architecture.

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