technical solution for censorship [was: UK internet filtering]

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 14:56:56 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Benjamin S. <webmaster at tor-proxy.net> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 06.12.2008, 19:49 -0500 schrieb Gregory Maxwell:
>> http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009938o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment
>>
>> I've confirmed the reports of UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia using some
>> UK tor exists.
>
> I think it's time to find a better technical solution to deal with
> censorship in different countries.
> Censorship is increasing all around the world and we should be prepared
> that sooner or later nearly every country will censor the internet for
> different reasons (cp, intellectual property, politcal reasons, etc.)
> and in a different way.
[snip]

Make exit enclaves work better and encourage their use. Right now they
result in an extra hop. That does not solve all cases, but it would do
a lot for people running resources which they know are being censored.
... it's also not incompatible with other lower-performing but more
broadly working solutions.



More information about the tor-talk mailing list