if those don't work, it's time to go to, and ask a friend to run one for you.Ī: That means if I don't have friends there is no need to run another random bridge/transport, right?Īrma: well, not quite. So the arms race, from the user side, is: if vanilla tor doesn't work, use the default bridges. i think it's typically because they feel they've done their job by blocking the website, or by going the extra mile and blocking "vanilla" tor.
but not many censors have opted to do so. So you can go to, and get a few bridge addresses, and put them into tor browser, and now you're reaching the tor network in a more indirect way.ĭkaurin: And these won't get blocked too?Īrma: the default bridges in tor browser can be blocked, yes. bridges are basically just like relays except they're not in the big public list, so they're harder to get a list of, and thus harder to block. they do that blocking either by making a list of all 7000 relay addresses, or by trying to recognize the tor protocol and blocking anybody who speaks it.īridges are things we invented for the case where they block relays by address. That means if you have your tor browser already, it doesn't matter if they've censored just the websiteīut some of the more complex censorship systems try to block connections to the relays. i guess they figure if you can't download tor, you can't use it to reach the tor network. Most of the simple censorship tools just block the tor website. also libraries or schools or coffee shops that want to censor tend to buy some product that does it for them, and that product tries to censor things like tor too) so countries that want to censor well also try to block connections to those relays. but also, it lets you get around censorship, kind of like a vpn. It aims to provide good security and privacy, so long as you can reach (some of) those 7000 relays. Maybe you can explain briefly what bridges are, and how one would get access.Īrma: the tor network is made up of about 7000 relays, run by volunteers around the world I think it's quite difficult for users and our LocLab members to know what to do in that kind of situation.
Dkaurin: To start us off, l want to ask about recent development in Egypt surrounding censorship, and why Tor is blocked.
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