Can you still use Tor on Verizon with bridges? Sent from my iPhone
> On May 16, 2018, at 11:05 AM, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 08:12:50PM -0400, Neel Chauhan wrote: >> Hi tor-relays mailing list, >> >> I have noticed that the Tor consensus server tor26 >> (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/847B1F850344D7876491A54892F904934E4EB85D) >> is blocked on Verizon's UUNET (AS701) backbone, and therefore, Verizon's >> retail services like FiOS and Wireless. > > I've been assuming the reason is something like wannacry: the wannacry > malware shipped with a Tor client, which means if you watch its behavior, > one of its early steps is to bootstrap into the Tor network. So my > bet is that some Verizon analysis person watched it bootstrap, and saw > the connection to tor26, and decided to blacklist tor26 network-wide in > order to protect their customers from wannacry... and then of course they > moved on to something else and they never realized (still don't realize) > that their block rule had anything to do with Tor. > > This reminds me of the Australian dentist website story, where the > dentist website ended up on the nationwide censorship list, presumably > because the website was compromised and serving malware at the time > they made the list -- but then once they'd cleaned up the website, it > turned out there was no mechanism for being removed from the blocklist, > because nobody had ever thought of that side of the issue. > > The fix (if my theory is right) would be to reach whatever engineer made > this leap, and teach them about Tor. But it will be extra challenging > because they don't even know that there's something they need to learn. > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays