[tor-relays] Netflix overblocking non-exit Tor relays

[Jamis Hartley]

I seriously doubt it's hostility. The likeliest thing is they were looking
to stop people from using Tor to bypass country restrictions. So when they
found a public list of all the Tor nodes, they blocked them all. Not
realizing that only a few of them are actually capable of proxying.

For them to continue their "attack on unblockers" while allowing legal Tor
users to watch, they need to simply read the flags of each node to find if
they are exit or not. Then block only exit.

This should fix almost all problems. As very very few people will run an
exit node from home. So blocking the exit ips will not block legitimate
Netflix users.

We just need to contact the right people.
On Feb 27, 2016 7:53 PM, "Markus Koch" <niftybunny at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I dont think its hostility. For the normal support assistant security
> and/or TOR is like a black hole
> and they do not know anything about it or know stuff from the
> mainstream press which is mostly
> complete bullshit. I would not blame the support person, try to get a
> supervisor who knows what we
> are doing. Good luck!
>
> Markus
>
>
> >
> > from this tread, i don't get the sense that netflix is interested in
> > changing anything. it is only speculation, but i'd guess there's a
> > financial incentive provided to netflix for hostility to tor.
> >
> > do i have to say anything other than cloudflare?
> >
> > well, there are many things to do with my time besides watching teevee.
> > although i just started watching occupied [okkupert] which i liked a lot
> ...
> >
> > --
> > \js: !
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