[tor-project] Infographic about Pluggable Transports

Isabela isabela at riseup.net
Tue Jun 7 21:02:07 UTC 2016


Hello there,

This is a great idea Nima, thanks for putting it together.

I think before collecting data (which might take more work than we
think, who knows) we should review the audience we are focusing here and
what stories we want to tell in the infograph then list the data we
should get.

Infograph are stories, we will start with the story that tells how to
use it. Then there is another section with other stories -- if our focus
is for new users or users who doesn't know PT because never had to used
it, than listing some of these things might just confuse more than help
or be too much information.



On 06/07/2016 09:11 AM, George Kadianakis wrote:
> Nima Fatemi <nima at torproject.org> writes:
>
>>
>> - List of PTs included in Tor Browser with a one-line summary and
>> significance of each

I think this is a great thing. Based on David and Linda's research
people tend to just pick the first option in the drop-down menu. This
will help educate people what the other options are etc. People also
don't understand all those PTs names listed there, what is the
difference etc :)


>> - List of PTs under development

I think this goes in the 'extra weight' package if our public is the one
I describe above.


>> - Stats
>> 	+ Total number of PT bridges
>> 	+ Average number of PT clients per day
>> 	+ Maybe compare the numbers with direct connections?

I think we should tell a story with this information -- is much better
for someone to digest and understand the meaning of numbers this way.

For instance, instead of just saying the average clients per day we
could (also?) give a real world case of a censorship event and the usage
growth due to it.

>> - Links to PT page (on website and wiki)

Sounds good.


>>
>> Specifically, here are some example statistics that I would find interesting:
>>
>> - How many clients use BridgeDB?
>> - Which distributors are used most?
>> - Which PTs are asked most?
>> - What % of clients are using Tor vs connecting directly?
>> - What are the most popular client countries?
>> - How many unique bridges does BridgeDB give out daily/weekly
>> - Did BridgeDB usage decrease with the introduction of meek?
>>
>> Some of the above statistics might also require some privacy-preserving
>> obfuscation before publishing.
>>
>> I'm still not sure why we have no statistics on BridgeDB. It seems something
>> that could point us to future research directions, and generally help us in
>> strategizing against censors.

I would do the same thing here, based on the audience, do we need all this?

I am happy to join a session on irc to look for what data/story we could
tell on the infograph. I just can't do it today because of other work I
said I would get done.

Cheers,
Isabela






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