[tor-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:
Parent ID:                                |         Points:
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Comment (by jgrahamc):

 Replying to [comment:114 jgrahamc]:
 > Replying to [comment:101 garrettr]:
 > > Replying to [comment:82 jgrahamc]:
 > > For what it's worth, at least of right now, this is still an issue. To
 demonstrate, I recorded a video of myself using Tor Browser to access
 https://cloudflare.com, which is naturally behind Cloudflare.
 >
 > Le sigh.
 >
 > You are correct. I've reproduced myself here using TorBrowser 5.5.2
 (JavaScript enabled; not that that matters as we don't use JavaScript to
 decide on the CAPTCHA serving). Raising this internally to figure out why.

 Replying to myself, but... this looks like it's a caching bug where the
 fact that an IP is currently a Tor exit node is not being cached
 correctly. Fix is in and should be pushed to production today.

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