Tor limitation

ADB firefox-gen at walala.org
Tue Nov 15 19:20:38 UTC 2005


Has the EFF sent anyone to China to check this out and hopefully get 
some more details? It would be especially interesting to find out what 
the situation is for other P2P and anonymity networks w/in china. If 
they are alive, how? If they got canned, what were their mistakes that 
lead to it?
~Andrew

Matt Thorne wrote:

>most of the censoring, in china at least, is done automatically with
>no human intervention. In my statement I ment that having an exit node
>behind the firewall would give us the same restrictions that they are
>having to deal with right now. for most people that really wouldn't
>impact their lives that much, except that there would be some pages
>that you counldn't view, and some messages that you couldn't send.
>           BUT.
>there is always a but,
>We, for the most part, are from countires that don't have restrictions
>on speach, so we would set off all of the flags that the censoring
>software was looking for, and the ISP would be ordered to cut the
>connection pretty quickly. Personally I don't think that an exit or
>entry server would last more than 5 minutes on china's web.
>
>On 11/14/05, Bob <monfster at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Well, the faq says "If you want to avoid most if not all abuse potential,
>>set it to "reject *:*". This is called being a "middleman" node." - but can
>>that also be an Entry node?
>>
>>However, I think someone running any type of tor SERVER node behind the
>>Great Firewall would have a lot more to worry about than just pissing off
>>their isp...
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-or-talk at freehaven.net [mailto:owner-or-talk at freehaven.net] On
>>Behalf Of ADB
>>Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 2:09 PM
>>To: or-talk at freehaven.net
>>Subject: Re: Tor limitation
>>
>>OK. I was going to say, "Tor should be able to get through it!". The point
>>is, if you have a bunch of tor nodes, especially geographically disparate
>>ones, the load should be spread out, no?
>>Are they default-allow or default-deny over there?
>>
>>Bob wrote:
>>
>>       I think there was a tag missing - I think it was:
>>
>>       <Sarcasm>yes I really want to use an exit node that is located
>>behind the
>>       great
>>       firewall...</Sarcasm>
>>
>>       -----Original Message-----
>>       From: owner-or-talk at freehaven.net
>>[mailto:owner-or-talk at freehaven.net] On
>>       Behalf Of Arrakistor
>>       Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 1:34 PM
>>       To: Matt Thorne
>>       Subject: Re[2]: Tor limitation
>>
>>       Hello Matt,
>>
>>       Somehow,  I  don't think China will kindly look upon those running
>>Tor
>>       servers  inside  their  country.  Infact,  I  am  concerned  about
>>the
>>       integrity  of  Tor  servers  which  have  data passing through
>>Chinese
>>       servers, as it seems hard to believe their government would allow
>>them
>>       to exist without their approval.
>>
>>       Has anyone else had such concerns, or any answers to such concerns?
>>
>>       Regards,
>>
>>       ST
>>
>>
>>       Monday, November 14, 2005, 3:18:21 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>               yes I really want to use an exit node that is located behind
>>the great
>>               firewall...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>               On 11/14/05, ADB <firefox-gen at walala.org>
>><mailto:firefox-gen at walala.org>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>                       Here's an easy solution for our buddies under commie
>>control: SET UP MORE
>>                       TOR EXIT NODE & DIR SERVERS! It's not tha hard! ;)
>>                       ~Andrew
>>
>>                       Darren Griffith wrote:
>>                       Many of the Chinese who are using tor are
>>complaining that it is too
>>
>>
>>               slow to
>>
>>
>>                       be usable by them. I imagine that those who feel
>>they need to
>>
>>
>>               use this
>>
>>
>>                       program don't mind it being at about dial-up speeds.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                       I'm in Beijing and I'm happy that Tor is there when
>>I need it. In
>>
>>
>>               fact,
>>
>>
>>                       en.wikipedia.org is now blocked by my ISP, so Tor is
>>almost
>>
>>
>>               essential. But
>>
>>
>>                       yes, it's pretty slow, though I'm patient. Only
>>lately,
>>
>>
>>               I'm consistently
>>
>>
>>                       getting DNS lookup failures, and that's what's
>>mostly
>>
>>
>>               eroding my experience
>>
>>
>>                       of using Tor all the time. (I know I should
>>
>>
>>               change the config of my client
>>
>>
>>                       to give more logging info so I can
>>
>>
>>               track down this bad exit node, but I
>>
>>
>>                       haven't made the effort yet.)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>               --
>>               Darren Paul
>>
>>
>>                       Griffith
>>
>>
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