[tor-bugs] #12537 [Circumvention/BridgeDB]: Perhaps BridgeDB should supply decoys

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#12537: Perhaps BridgeDB should supply decoys
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 Reporter:  andrea                               |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  Low                                  |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/BridgeDB               |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  bridgedb-email, sql-injection,       |  Actual Points:
  XKEYSCORE, forthelulz                          |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor30-can
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Changes (by dcf):

 * cc: phw (added)


Comment:

 It sounds like phw has been doing this recently.

 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-August/002439.html
 > * Set up decoy bridge that's handed out to BridgeDB crawlers

 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-
 meeting.2019-08-22-17.00.log.html
 > 17:48:32 <phw> i recently set up a decoy bridge that is handed out to
 requests that are coming from bots. the only purpose of this decoy bridge
 is to try and find out what our adversaries are doing with it

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