why polipo?

Rich Jones rich at anomos.info
Sat Feb 20 22:01:01 UTC 2010


Egg --> My face

Well done, guys.
R

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.org> wrote:
> On 02/20/2010 04:41 PM, Rich Jones wrote:
>> While we're discussing the bundle, I'd like to mention something
>> that's been on my mind lately. I recently ran a Privacy Tech Workshop
>> at the Students for Free Culture conference in DC - and the general
>> conclusion is that Tor/FF is too hard to use and set up  (and I think
>> that this has been the conclusion from the folks at the
>> OpenNetInitiative at Harvard about the real-world usage of censorship
>> resisting tools in Iran and such) and that most people end up using
>> the first result on whatever search engine for "get around blocked
>> internet", etc, which ends up using a webproxy.
>
> This is why the Tor Browser Bundle exists,
> http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/.  It's self-contained and
> pre-configured. Just download, extract, and run.  There's no
> configuration needed.
>
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