Re: [tor-dev] Internet-wide scanning for bridges

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 04:33:05PM -0800, Vlad Tsyrklevich wrote:

I've attached a patch to warn bridge operators running with ORPort set to 443 or 9001 as a stop-gap measure.

You are raising good points here but keep in mind that we also want at least *some* (vanilla) bridges which run on port 443. There are some adversaries such as captive portals which only allow communication over a small set of ports and 443 is one of these ports. While these bridges would easily fall prey to Internet-wide scanning, they would still be useful for users behind captive portals.

Cheers, Philipp