[tor-bugs] #3244 [Website]: Research moving mirrors to a bittorrent distro model

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#3244: Research moving mirrors to a bittorrent distro model
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 Reporter:  phobos   |          Owner:  phobos
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:        
Component:  Website  |        Version:        
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Comment(by phobos):

 Replying to [comment:1 arma]:
 > > Further, do we push out updates and point www.torproject.org to a list
 of bt peers so anyone can serve up the website?
 >
 > That seems unwise, since we a) don't want to give our ssl cert to every
 such place, and b) don't want to trust every such place to give the right
 binaries to users.

 We trust mirrors to give out binaries now.  Many users use the mirrors to
 get the tor binaries.

 > The broader question here is "how can we make use of our website
 mirrors, since currently no users even know to look for them"

 Users seem to ask google for tor mirrors, and go from there.  I've seen
 this first hand in my trainings.  Roughly none have gone to
 torproject.org, they all go to google, bing, or yahoo and search for 'tor
 browser bundle' when asked to find tbb.

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