[ux] Tor Configuration Dialogue User Study Update

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Wed Dec 9 19:59:46 UTC 2015


On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:34:06AM +0000, sajolida wrote:
> Understood now, thanks! So this refers for example to a country blocking
> connections to the IP of a website (or doing this in a smarter way but
> interfering with this particular connection only). And not to domain
> name or hardware seizure by the FBI for example (which are a different
> kind of "censored websites").
> 
> I was wondering whether you were exploring the mental model of users in
> the later case, where Tor can't help you I think.

Correct, Tor doesn't help in that case. Nor does it help when the
web site itself is blocking you, as in
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/doc/ListOfServicesBlockingTor.


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