FAQ - more questions to add to the FAQ
There were a bunch of questions coming up from the session that Phw did on "Circumventing Internet Censorship with Tor" on June 2020. It would be great to add them to a FAQ with the answers.
Questions from participants:
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[David F.] There are many search results for "Tor" in app stores. What Tor mobile apps are safe to use? http://4bflp2c4tnynnbes.onion/tormobile/ http://4bflp2c4tnynnbes.onion/tormobile/tormobile-1/
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[David F.] Where can someone ask questions about Tor and get support? http://4bflp2c4tnynnbes.onion/get-in-touch/
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[anadahz] What happens if an ISP blocks all/some Tor directory authorities? a. As a relay operator: Can I setup a relay on this ISP? b. As a user: Can I connect to Tor (and hope fallback dirs will work)? #116
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[federico] How does Salmon identifies users? If a censor uses dynamic IP addresses to fetch bridges, will future users connecting from those addresses be affected? Salmon is production ready? If so, we can add to support.tpo,
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[Reethika] Have you found any interesting issues in your usability studies that you can share with us? Do you have special IRC channels to brainstorm solutions for these usability issues? https://community.torproject.org/user-research/
=> We are resuming our open meetings next Tuesday in IRC! the details are here https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team/-/wikis/home [antonela]
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[anadahz] How can one help Tor network grow and became more diverse?
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[Oliver L] Are Tor Onionservices already safe against DDoS attacks. I know there have been some fixes in the last year. I hope the question has not yet been answered in the presentation, unfortunately I came a little late ;-)
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[Arturo] How can the internet measurement community (OONI, RIPE, M-Lab, ICLab, etc.) support your work? Are there any gaps we can help meet?
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[David F.] What is involved in creating a new pluggable transport? #dev portal?
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[Arturo] What are the challenges that come with making tools like Tor work in places that have advanced internet censorship? Meek works in China, but it's expensive. What is the real big challenge?
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[Jack Wampler] Would a larger number of bridges help to fight bridge enumeration and scraping from bridge db or is the challenge in distribution itself (i.e. deploying salmon)?