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Food for thought: How much do you think it would cost per email to have
the same thing (collecting a heap of bridges) done via Mechanical Turk,
etc.?


On 07/24/2014 05:16 PM, Mirimir wrote:
> On 07/24/2014 02:36 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 03:24:26PM -0500, Cypher wrote:
>>> In light of the last year of disclosures by Edward Snowden, why is To=
r
>>> requiring that I establish an account with an email provider that is
>>> completely out of my control and has a general history of complying w=
ith
>>> law enforcement data requests? Why those two providers specically?
>>
>> Because we need an adequately popular provider that makes it hard to
>> generate lots of addresses. Otherwise an attacker could make millions
>> of addresses and "be" millions of different people asking for bridges.=

>>
>> https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html#tth=
_sEc7.4
>=20
> That totally makes sense.
>=20
>> (Also, it recently became clear that it would be useful for people to
>> access this provider via https, rather than http, so a network adversa=
ry
>> can't just sniff the bridge addresses off the Internet when the user
>> reads her mail. And it would also be nice to not use providers that tu=
rn
>> their entire email databases over to the adversary, even unwittingly.
>> Lots of adversaries and lots of goals to manage at once here.)
>>
>> --Roger
>=20
> Right, and with HTTPS, users' ISPs (and their friends) can't even see
> that bridges are being provided. Does the bridge database talk directly=

> with Google and Yahoo mail servers, to prevent possible XKeyScore snoop=
ing?
>=20


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