Distribution of bridge information

[Ryan Day]

I was playing around with an idea of how to distribute bridge information on
a mass scale without censor groups being able to automate the process of
collecting and filtering the bridges.  I came up with a pretty simple script
that contacts bridges.torproject.org, grabs some bridge info, and obfuscates
it using the same methods that CAPTCHA systems use to obfuscate images. Now
people can read the bridge info, but machines can't(most of the time).

I've put this together as a Wordpress plugin that is available at

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/obfuscator/


What this plugin does is grab bridge information, cache it, and obfuscate it
for display on your blog.  Since that bridge information won't update for
that IP, the plugin only contacts the site about once a day for new
information.

My goal here is to allow people everywhere to help distribute bridge
information without increasing the chance it will be filtered.  This will
hopefully help people in firewalled countries be able to get on the Tor
network a little easier.

I'm interested in your thoughts and comments and criticisms.  Is this a good
idea?  Do you think people will use it and it will be beneficial?  Is it
good but needs improvement?  Also where else could bridge information be
grabbed from(rss, twitter, etc)?

Thanks for any comments!
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